I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.

You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.

It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.

You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.

That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.