Nothing chastens a planner more than the knowledge that he will have to carry out the plan..

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be..

It's amazing how if you turn up at a studio without an idea, a picture will take itself from momentum, and you quickly can lose control..

It's never over till it's over with a friend..

But let the good prevail..

When you could discern a real threat from everything else, it was called caution. When you couldn't, it was called paranoia. ... You cannot separate ….

Nobody who lived through the '50s thought the '60s could've existed. So there's always hope..

You`ve got to just follow the money [in Washington]. You see it. There`s no countervailing power..

I have not been a success, and probably never will be..

Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as simple ration….

Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory, in the dense network….

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules..

It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively..

No one actually lives as if there is no objective truth..

What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’.

I always do things before I go on a case and when I leave a case. I even do that when I'm out on the road..

I don't like closed systems..

I don't pull, I just receive..

Now I see -- we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us..

Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good..

Success is less rare than the courage to attempt it..