Start. Don’t look back. If at the end it doesn’t meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about your hopes.

Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology; other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it.

What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. That's it. Animal protein is bad for you. Dairy is bad for you. Forget the ads: Milk and eggs are bad for you.

I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.

Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open.

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.