Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels becaus….

My trick - is there one? Well, perhaps a bitter youth with many changes of occupation, with the necessity of trying everything from poetry to berry p….

My main aim is getting set up so that when I do quit, I can step away and re-evaluate what I want to do in life. Do I want to get to 50 years old and….

I was sexually abused by my step father for years and years, and that caused scars you can't see. And we know many people have the kind of scars you ….

I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, a….

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how wel….

When I was 18 years old I knew pretty much what I wanted to do in life. When I was 18 I knew I wanted to be a pro bodybuilder..

I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle clas….

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in….

What I do is interpret, not create. I may add elements and do something different. That is what is so incredible about theatre. Why do we love it tha….

There hadn't really been a climate movement, per se. I think everyone spent twenty years thinking that if we just keep pointing out that the world is….

I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery which Abraham Lincoln d….

Jane Monheit is skyrocketing up the jazz charts. By next year, we won't be able to get her..

I would argue that there's been a backlash this year [2016]. They [the Kochs] pushed the [Republican] party too far right. The other thing that the b….

My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago..

I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer. You're going to look back 20 years from now and of course you're going to remember the games. B….

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better..

It turns out it takes 30 years for a new idea to seep into the culture. Technology does not drive change. It is our collective response to the option….

In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter that the obser….

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from ….

The love for a child is more an unconditional sort of love ... Although some parents are really narcissistic. In general, I think there is an expecta….