It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Firing insults anonymously behind the keys of a message board, slandering other people's beliefs or opinions, this happens on a daily basis in my comment section or on my feed. Cyber-bullying and, further, online social ignorance, is a very real problem, typically without any real consequence.

I don't know what'll ever happen if I'm in a healthy relationship. My writing career will go down the tubes.

We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them.

Running has taken me in, and continues to comfort, heal and challenge me in all kinds of magical ways. I am not a 'good runner' because I am me. I am a good 'me' because I am a runner.

My sister died in Brooklyn.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

Western films don't do very well in India.

As artists, we thrive when we can express our comfort and our discomfort. If a certain scene is really challenging for us, if we're in an environment where we feel safe, we're able to do our work.

Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.

My favorite toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon shoes. You strap them to your feet and they have springs on them, and you can just jump around!

I'm just trying to find a good project. Work with a good director, someone I really admire. Find a good role.

With every social media, there's hate and things like that.

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

What I love about the theatre is that it's always metaphorical. It's like going back to being a kid again, and we're all pretending in a room. Sometimes, when the pretending really works, I find it much, much more moving than something on film.

Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.

I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.

It's frustrating at times when you think you've earned a chance to play on the field and you're over there sitting on the bench. That's not the kind of player I am. I'm the kind of player who wants to be out there on the field and needs to contribute every minute of every game.

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.