Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
Demands for solidarity can quickly turn into demands for groupthink, making it difficult to express nuance.
Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.
Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love
Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.
The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.
The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.
'An Unquiet Mind' wasn't hard to write in terms of the actual writing of it.
With grief, you have reason to despair; it's a human thing.
Innovation is about practical creativity - it's about making new ideas useful...
I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
I don't like tofu. I'd sooner eat a sponge.
I have the same problems that everybody else does.
I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.
I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.
Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer.
Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.
I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
