An Irishman I am, begora! With a heart and a spirit on me not crushed be a hundred years of oppression. I'll be getting me shillelagh out next, wait'll you see.

If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.

When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

I realize that I am never going to grow up.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

No matter where you are in life at the moment, you still remain as important as everyone else.

Oh, ' she says, 'the Vat prints nothing but rapes. You know what a rape usually is? It's a woman who changed her mind afterward.

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi

I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.

Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.

Surgery is always second best. If you can so something else, it’s better. Surgery is limited. It is operating on someone who has no place else to go.

There’s danger in thinking joy is a matter of location. If we can’t find joy where we are, we probably won’t find it anywhere.

Ironically, gratitude's most powerful mysteries are often revealed when we are struggling in the midst of personal turmoil.