I can't pretend that I did one really awful thing - I took a bite out of the apple but now I'm never going to sin again.

Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream.

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently.

As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.

I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color.

All Stories are True.

I believe - what did Faulkner say? "The past is not even past."

Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.

A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents.

All your convictions come back to mock you when you reach a certain age.

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

I love doing comedy. Absolutely love it. After 'Wedding Crashers, ' people suddenly realized that it was something I could do.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that Ive done after that is really because of the Olympics.

Older, you know, is obviously relative. You're older if there's somebody younger than you in the room, and you're younger if there's someone older in the room.

It's quiet for a while, and then Rowan says; "We could talk now. We're alone out here. No walls." "There are always walls." I say.

What is the world coming to, when you can't even trust a rogue vicar and her demon lover?

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.