It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along. Strengt….

Political correctness is the fascism of the 90's, it is this rigid feeling that you have to keep your ideas and your way of looking at things within ….

In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods..

All good art is about something deeper than it admits..

Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control..

[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our mi….

I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me..

When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I enjoy ….

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that i….

I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence..

Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past..

I know aliens from other worlds are required to arrive in New Mexico, but why stay there?.

Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all t….

And yet, even so, there is a way to find happiness. That is to be curious about all of the interlocking events that add up to our lives. To notice co….

Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn in cultural ….

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class..

There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishin….

There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats an….

The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His..

We spend too much time hiding illness..

It has been said that the reason we establish relationships is to assure ourselves of a witness to our lives..