Cheese. The adult form of milk.

I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now.

Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.

The human comedy begins with a vertical smile.

Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do.

Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.

Over-eating is the most worthy of sins. It neither breaks up marriages nor causes road accidents.

I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.

Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.

Good people protect people they love even if that means that pretending that everything is okay.

No one ever became great without troubles. Troubles are opportunities for greatness in disguise

People in high school either feel like they're with the cool kids in a clique, or they're isolated - there's no in-between.

What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness.

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out?

I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me

I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.

Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job.

I would wear a turban to Whole Foods.

Don't pay any attention to the critics; don't even ignore them.