If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

There are some people, she says, not many, who have within them the power to change things. The courage to act in the service of somethin greater than themselves.

Working with great people makes you great you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

I really wanted our male characters to be a lot stronger. We gave them careers, lives.

The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for, but it certainly laid a foundation for the current scene, as well as providing real software.

I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.

In the end, everyone loses everyone.

Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood, don't write fiction.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

Three in the morning. Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water.