If Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker had teamed up to write epic fantasy, something like Split Heirs might have resulted.

Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you.

I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.

I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time.

I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.

I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.

I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit.

Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.