I used to live in New York and now I live in L.A., and somehow I've become a different person because of the air and what I see every day, and I think we all do.

The thing I love about this story [The Killing] and this type of storytelling is that I don't have to know the end before I know the beginning.

But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?

There are no miracles these days. Manna will not fall from the sky. Bombs, yes, enough to pierce our hearts, but manna, no.

I love travel, it promotes open-mindedness, and I believe that the interactions you have as you go places and meet people all sharpen the mind.

Well, Southerners like to eat well. You see, it's an event when it's done right.

In my illustrious career as a university student, I turned in over 100 papers so that one day, in the end, I got 1 paper in return.

He is . . . like many other geniuses a greater friend to the bottle than the bottle is to him.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

I like Mexico. I love the Mexican people. I do business with the Mexican people, but you have people coming through the border that are from all over. And they're bad. They're really bad.

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.