Are you in great physical pain, or is that your thinking expression?

I already explained this. I don’t like you. True, I don’t like most people, but I especially dislike you. I could start my own religion based on how much I dislike you.

Izzy. Sweet, beautiful, but eternally strange Izzy.

Go on, ” he offered magnanimously. “Feel free to piss on yourselves andcower helplessly.”Gods, sometimes his generosity overwhelmed him.

Have you ever noticed that fear affects your physical mind and body?

…it struck Mr. Jelliby that a wide-eyed faery was not a surprised faery. It was an angry, angry faery.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write what we don't know we know."

Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy

There's right and there's wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat.

I regret not dancing more, just cutting loose on the dance floor. I still admire those who don't care much about what others think of them.

I want to create shows which are interesting. I hope that some people are excited by some of the ideas.

The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.