What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

We are in love, in the very beginning part of it, when you don't ever want to separate your body from the other person's.

In a world filled with people, some happy, others like me, I feel so all alone.

Dawn and its excesses always reminded me of heaven, a place where I have always known I would not be comfortable.

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

People always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and Paramount.

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.

When you learn to harness the power of your fears it can take you places beyond your wildest dreams.

Everybody just wants to be loved, and nobody feels loved enough in high school.

If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.