You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die.
Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.
The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.