I’m worse at what I do best..

All in all is all we are..

I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smalle….

Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground... there shou….

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem..

We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it..

I thought equality was non-negotiable..

You'd never killed anyone. Then you had..

I thought a great line in the What Just Happened movie said, "We're just the mayonnaise.".

No one is content with his own lot..

Once you become somebody, that don't mean you distance yourself from people. There is no such thing as no one can walk the streets or go outside. Tha….

In L.A., the only thing within walking distance is your car..

It saddens me how much fear we've instilled in ourselves..

Fear comes from the unknown. Once you know, then, whatever..

I don't want to exhibit something to someone anymore. I want to do the reverse: I want to exhibit someone to something..

I'm a lot of things, but none of them are great..

I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the first novel I've b….

I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a perso….

Nothing works unless you do the work..

Without me there could be no everybody..

I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.