Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don't portray it. But there is also the hope that some lucky clown is going to come along and stumble into the gold mine. And I think you are also entitled to hold out that hope.

Not too many people work in a job where, waiting out there are three or four hundred people who are paid to tear apart what you've done. And often they are bri…

I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to understan…

I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers. With somebody else, it may be …

I have left Act I, for involution And Act II. There, mired in complexity I cannot write Act III.

My philosophy is I'm gonna fight as hard as I can to keep all the bad things from happening. But if they are gonna happen and I happen to be in the city where …

No straight lines make up my life; And all my roads have bends; There's no clear-cut beginnings; And so far no dead-ends.