Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Culture is taking whatever background you come from and either running with it or running from it.

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.

Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.

Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled.

Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.

I would never say never to returning to comedy.

The second I finish shooting something, I know I could have done it better if we started right then.

The cat which isn't let out of the bag often becomes a skeleton in the cupboard.

I would say that one of the things I wish I could do differently would be to be more outgoing.

I want to get a big, lifted truck with mudflaps on the back. Where I'm from, it's an agricultural area, so that's just how I've been raised.