I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables.

Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

God is not going to send us a bill for solar energy, but the gas industry will.

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Barton Fink is just too self-important as an artist to get much sympathy.

Do not speak badly of yourself, for the warrior that is inside you hears your words and is lessened by them.

we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.

I believe what it says in the scriptures and in the Bhagavad Gita: 'Never was there a time when you did not exist, and there never will be a time when you cease to exist.'

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away.

I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.

She didn't even finish her last sentence; it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her mouth had continued on the old topic, not realizing it was out of supplies.

It is to believed because it is absurd.

The way that you become world-class is... by asking good questions.