I wanted to tell the story of Luong Ung, who’s a dear friend of mine.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

If I’m gonna tell a real story, I’m gonna start with my name.

Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster – Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.

It’s overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

A boy’s story is the best that is ever told.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

Abe Foxman has been a friend and advisor of mine for a long time.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer… in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.