The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.

In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny.

Loving unconditionally, was love so sublime.Lost without you now, I thought we'd have more time.

It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.

I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face it.

GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions.

Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.

We didn't come all the way up here to compromise for no more than we’d gotten here. We didn't come all this way for no two seats, 'cause all of us is tired.

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.