"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."

“I didn't know enough about the Civil War or its lingering effects as we all should. It's really easy to think that the Civil War was the end of slavery, and the triumph of our collective conscience and humanity over oppression. Sadly, the oppression and systemic subjugation of people of color in this country still exists.”

“I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.”

Source : "FIVE QUESTIONS FOR . . . / Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn / Journalism heroes turn focus to aging". Interview with Paul Wilner, www.sfgate.com. May 15, 2005.

“A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered - and I still do - which is more important.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.”

Source : "Great Thoughts to Sell By: Quotes to Motivate You to Success". Book by Gerhard Gschwandtner, 2007.

“Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.”

“You don't always marry the love of your life.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“Writing screenplays is incredibly hard. I can't call it joy. Writing Novels? Joy. Directing? Joy. Writing Screenplays? That's where you pay all your dues.”