The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

The world is a strange and wonderful place.

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

Art is about paying attention.

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

Whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. (Matthew 21:22)

I'm staying in a lovely hotel, dressing robe behind the door, lovely fluffy sheets - took me a half an hour getting my suitcase closed.

I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist.

When youre a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.

Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text.

A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.

You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-business at the same time. You cannot love employment and hate employers.

People say that the largest sexual organ is the brain, and I think the fact that they definitely amuse each other is probably the strongest glue in that relationship.