If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.

When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

I realize that I am never going to grow up.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.

Never cry because you have mountains of problem in your hands to solve. Always smile because each problems will someday resolve.

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.

Hell is repetition, you go over and over and over. That's hell, so I will eat your eyes in hell, I will be waiting you in hell, I will repeat that over and over and over...

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation

A good husband makes a good wife at any time.

It was like I was inside a fishbowl in the middle of a typhoon, and everyone else was on the outside cluelessly enjoying lovely weather.

I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.

Data is not useful until it becomes information.

They got how many trillions of dollars in gold and silver and jewelry and art and real estate and stained glass and they're passing the basket on Sunday so they can get the tomato farmers' donation?