If anything happens to me, tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way, they'll have to reevaluate me.

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?

Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.

I can't not put humor in a book.

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.

Relaxation is the absence of worry.

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction.

Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important.

Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

I'd like to have the script in a much better place from day one of shooting, rather than trying to continue to work on it while you shoot it. I think those are lessons you learn on any film.

I care more about the people than about the company. That's why I don't want to own it. I don't want to run a business. People do it better than I do.

Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost.

It’s not what you believe that counts; it’s what you believe enough to do.

Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.