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

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

And the rest is rust and stardust.

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.

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.

YOU CAN TRUST YOUR LOVE ONE, BUT NOT EVERYONE AROUND THEM.

Woman is woman.

To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.

Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.

Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.

You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain.

I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.

Nothing's planned. Never say never.

There is no such thing as a soulmate...and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.