As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.

In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.

It's pretty much a fact that our entire universe is a mental construct. We don't actually deal with reality directly. We simply compose a picture of reality from what's going on in our retinas, in the timpani of our ears, and in our nerve endings.

I suppose that the main drive is to find the edge of something and then throw myself over it.

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.