A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.

Every time Kellyanne Conway goes on TV, there's another fight with whoever's interviewing her that particular day.

As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place that helps that.

The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.

We are all fundamentally equal souls, and if you make a zillion dollars, you're not any better than anybody else spiritually. You're still an equal soul.

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

Most poverty and suffering - whether in a country, a family or a person - flows from disorganization. A stable social order is an artificial accomplishment, the result of an accumulation of habits, hectoring, moral stricture and physical coercion. Once order is dissolved, it takes hard measures to restore it