An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

No one likes to see a government folder with his name on it.

I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not. I've seen what happens when people act on intuition, or for illogical reasons. Sometimes the results are ludicrous and embarrassing; more often they are simply horrible. But here I am, just the same, behaving like a crackbrained crystal gazer.

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.