"The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses."

“Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted.”

“I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.”

Source : Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. June 14, 2000.

“I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.”

“Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change”

“The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.”

“My father lead by fear.  I did what my father said ‘cause I was scared of getting my ***** beat.  His voice rang so vividly in my head.  That it was just…a fear.”

“I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it is, is life experience. Life experience doesn't mean you have to live 50 years to have it. I mean you know a lot of people have huge life experience by the time they're in college.”

“You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.”