I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this.

When you're wearing jeans, there's a shift in your center of gravity.

I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents.

If the project piques my interest and scares me a little bit, then it's got me hooked.

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

The best piece of advice Ive ever been given was, Be in the business youre in. Dont just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business youre in.

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

Well, I'm not a natural gym person myself, anyway.

If we could think about somebody else other than ourselves for a few minutes a day, this world would be so much better off.

The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.

Rumors are the children of truth.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

I'm Fasinated by women who aren't making a great impression on people. I think there's probably something there that is more than meets the eye.

On Keith Richards: He's like a monkey with arthritis.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.