The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.

We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.

The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you up and says this is what I'm afraid of. Do not listen to me at your peril.... The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to.

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."

You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.

The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.