Do this: hate him for me after I die. I beg you. Dying request.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.

If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.

I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

A poor, who hates power, once become powerful, hates poor.

Any relationship that is solely built on lust absolutely has no long blissful future.

It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications.

As I have been paving my career as a filmmaker my parents have been there for me every step of the way. They have believed in my dreams despite how steep the mountain has been.

I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me

Little Willie John is the soul singer's soul singer.

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?

I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's like sweat, on people's backs.

It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.