In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White Hou….

Doubtless there are other roads..

No one's going to shoot at me..

It's really good to be here and as I always say, it's really good to be anywhere!.

No one will ever make your movie. They will only make their movie..

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to brin….

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday..

What so wild as words are?.

Liberals always exempt themselves from the rules that they impose on others..

We're in a psuedoscientific technobabble..

Death: the grand perhaps..

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid..

The bottom line is that it's hard to find a model in which you can practically administer and sustain political support for those kinds of efforts. A….

When somebody tells me I cannot do something, that's when I do it..

By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable nov….

I don't engage in hypotheticals..

Better to have something to say than to have to say something..

There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go..

We are never content with our lot..

Everything is amazing and nobody is happy.

Do what's right and you'll never go wrong..