"No one thinks in your mind except you."

“I've given these guys the blueprint on how to win a premiership, now I just have to be patient until they're ready.”

“I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet.”

“It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.”

“The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.”

Source : "'To hell with Perry Mason'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2002.

“I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they're silent? They don't have a father around to tell them, 'Don't act like a moron. You'll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don't sit there crying and screaming, idiot.'”

Source : "Bill Moyers Journal" interview, www.pbs.org. September 12, 2008.

“A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.”

“One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.”

“Time taught me how to see every second as heaven, even though they're perfectly disguised as hell.”