"Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits."

“I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body.”

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

“The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants.”

“Everything I publish is for my readers.”

“It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of them - John Faulkner, whoever, Aldous Huxley.”

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“Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.”

“He didn't know of course. Not really. And yet that was what he said, and I was soothed to hear it. For I knew what he meant. We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delineaments, weight, and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of grief is common to us all. "I know," he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did.”

“The fact is, when I wrote 'Juno' - and I think this is part of its charm and appeal - I didn't know how to write a movie. And I also had no idea it was going to get made!”

“The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.”