I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.

If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.

When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

I realize that I am never going to grow up.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

If we cannot live so as to be happy let us at least live so as to deserve it.

I personally like the idea of shellfish aquaculture. These are animals that stay quiet, they stay where you put them, and they clean up the water.

Don't wrench your shoulder out of its socket trying to pat yourself on the back," Beldin said sourly.

The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.

I always sings too long and too loud.

It is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me.

Lifestyle is not an amount; it's a practice.

Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi.

I think Walking Dead is more of a stretch for me because I'm a light hearted superhero kind of guy.

The world championship is a disputed title. You've got a situation like boxing. Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's extremely undignified.