My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet..

People don't get to see the unglamourous side..

I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that..

I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for….

People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend on blind matte….

When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you ha….

I don't understand computers. I don't even understand people who understand computers..

I'm such a diva on set..

You can never predict what an audience is going to respond to and what they're going to watch. What we always knew was that we were making something ….

Racism was never acceptable to the people who suffer from it..

Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that….

I have a St. Bernard named B..

I came here with nothing, with maybe a hundred bucks in my pocket and had to get a job. And these wealthy people who had made their money themselves,….

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes ….

You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people..

I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people..

If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric, and that wasn't the territory….

I'm not really into musicals..

Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opp….

I have come to believe, more strongly than ever, that after people die they really do live on through those who love them..

I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusio….