If the worst thing a physicist could say about a statement is that it was “false, ” the best thing he could say is that it was “interesting.

The thing about memories wasn't that many of them inevitably faded, but that repeated recall of the ones you remembered burnished them into shining, gorgeous lies

As he drifted off, his father came to visit him, clothed in all his possible shapes.

Isn’t that the fantasy? If I go back in time, knowing what people back then didn’t know, then I can change history! But history made you what you are. And it’s bigger than any one man.

This is the last moment of contentment untainted by sorrow, when the brain hesitates before delivering the message to the heart that it knows it must.

But life isn't neat the way a story is. And if you try to pretend it is, then you just make yourself unhappy, or screw yourself over.

I like Carson. I really like Carson. I can hand an idea to him that's still a little rough, and he can turn it over and tumble it and hand it back to me shining. And I can do the same for him.

But who, in these modern times, slept well?

I can’t comprehend why any black man with even a lick of sense would have the slightest bit of interest in time travel. Going backward in time? A black man? You have got to be out of your mind.

Later—how much later? Hard to tell. In times of tragedy clocks will trick you—Philip stood in the kitchen doorway.

She hadn't gone back in time. The idea was

People build defenses around a weakness, not around strength. Where self-esteem is strong, a defense is unnecessary.

The truth can’t hide, Colonel. Sooner or later it will rise to the top, like oil in water.

Hallelujah songcarries on a gentle wind, heralding a king.

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics.

Right now I've got just two rules to live by. Rule one: don't taunt elephants. Rule two: don't stand next to anybody who taunts elephants. -Sergeant Schlock

I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the right sensibility and that she could figure it [The Adderall Diaries] out.

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.

I grew up in a house with dogs. We always had dogs. We always had a bunch of dogs, actually.

Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.