I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.

I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

A flower does not fulfill its destiny until it blooms, and a star does not fulfill its destiny until it shines.

... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

It's hard to smoke a pipe, and it's actually kind of brutal. It burns your mouth and your throat, and to keep it lit.

When I was in grade school I was into chess club, Latin club, D&D, computer camp - everything that made vaginas go away.

Looks can be deceiving; it's eating that's believing.

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.

God's goal is not to get what you want; it is to get you what you need.

He's better than the rest, and his arm sweat smells the best.

It only took me six months to get a record deal, but it took me 20 years to have a hit.