In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.
The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.
It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.
My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.
I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.
I have a complicated relationship with non-human animals. I've never really been close to one.
I'm pretty excited about the state of TV these days. There's great opportunity for really complicated relationships, in a way that I don't really see as much in movies anymore.
I did go to Vietnam in 2000 as a kind of pilgrimage and to feel my generation was very much a part of this. I felt responsible but also connected and empathetic. It was a very complicated relationship we had, whichever side you were on. The shock of being there was very few people my own age - I was primarily in the North in the streets of Hanoi. A whole generation was essentially decimated.
