"Movies are like magic tricks."

"You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now."

"I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him."

"I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific."

"Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things."

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

"Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'"

"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."