Nobody knows anything.

Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.

Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.

But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.

Nobody knows anything.

We are men of action, lies do not become us.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

You can never trust what you read.

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told.

Flaws would not only bring death but far worse humiliation.

In Hollywood no one knows anything.

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.

In the 1980s, the U.S. Army invaded two Caribbean countries, Grenada and Panama, to depose leaders who had defied Washington.

The only way to make podcasting a real big business would be if you could somehow get the top seven podcasters to team up and make a mega-network.

I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And what I didn't do well, I thought people were going to give me the opportunity to do well, because maybe they saw my talent, so they would give me a chance. I had no idea that they would see me completely different.

The true - the true economy has got to come back into balance with the very biosphere that sustains us. And I think a lot of people just see the green economy as a different way of allowing the corporate agenda to continue to flourish.

I've never had a celebrity crush! I don't believe in those, really. I feel like you have to get to know the person before you start to feel anything like that. People always think they know celebrities, but how can you when you've never met them?

I really wanted to do plays since I was a little girl. I wanted to go to Juilliard and to learn, but then I really fell in love with doing film and television along the way.

I'm really aware of the conversations that surround young actresses in Hollywood. I always get myself into a hole with these conversations, and I get weirdly quoted, and I sound militant and like I'm not thankful at all, and I'm so thankful of everything that's happening. But I'm an active observer of the machinations of this world.

Well, I don't know if this is true of everyone, but I have this relationship with my parents where, despite however mature or articulate or grown-up I think I've become, as soon as I go home, I turn into this petulant 13-year-old, especially with the tone of my voice.

Anytime you announce your dream; two things happen, it's either it motivates you to get it done or the feeling of accomplishment sets in and discourages you from pursuing it.

People want to download publications quickly and read them without cruft. Publications that started in print carry too much baggage and usually have awful apps. 'The Magazine' was designed from the start to be streamlined, natively digital, and respectful of readers' time and attention.

Your life can only be as fruitful as the decisions and actions that you consistently channel into your goals. Dream bigger and relentlessly push harder with courage and faith.

I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.

I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.

I am wealth, I am abundance, I am Cosmic Ordering.

I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.

You're always thinking, What's the next move - the career, the money.

I love you more than yesterday but nothing is compared to tomorrow.

If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.

Kyrie Irving could use a little help.

I am very grateful for the dedicated work and intellectual contributions of generations of talented postdocs, students and research assistants without whom none of the work from my laboratory would have been possible.

Sin may result from activities that begin innocently or that are perfectly legitimate in moderation, but in excess they can cause us to veer from the straight and narrow path to our destruction.

I was a hyper kid, so I didn't want to play baseball and wait for the ball to come to me. I wanted to play a sport where I could go get the ball.

I've been listening to a lot of music by Arca.