I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

Genius is nothing but a mastery of the subject at hand

a burning light(light having oil) will burn to a glowing light which will grow into a shining light to become an illuminator

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

For our improvement we need a mirror.

Wherever you're coaching or playing right now is the Big Time

There won't be emptiness. Emptiness is just another idea, another illusion.

Despite these hurdles, manufacturers in the U.S. and their employees are doing remarkable work.

I grew into it. It grew into me. It and I blurred at the edges, became one amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.

I hate high expectations because they're hard to beat.

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.