The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.

I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging.

It's all about letting the story take over.

If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell.

If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.

One does not consider style, because style is.

The easiest way to forget about the people who are dying in wars right now is to close our eyes and ears! And this is also the ugliest and the vilest way!

It’s not that I wanted to die . I just wanted to go to sleep for long enough for my life to find some meaning again.

Being imperfect, makes you perfect.

The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide.

There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.

My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.

The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the Sacred word.

As a filmmaker, I make the films that I love, that are in my heart. That's what I care about.

Great leaders rally people to a better future.

Women get 77 cents on the dollar that men get for the same job.