Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.

There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It's patriotic to overconsume.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.

Shall I let in the stranger, Shall I welcome the sailor, Or stay till the day I die? Hands of the stranger and holds of the ships, Hold you poison or grapes?

I voted for you during your last election.

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

Human language is nothing like the signalling systems of other animals.

In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.

There's a rumor going around that I'm Miss Goody-two-shoes from Australia. Well, that's a laugh. I'm really Miss Goody-two-shoes from England!

There is a saying that every single person in the world has something to teach you. So the more people I get to work with, the more I can learn and the better actor I will become.

Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.

I don't wanna lose you And I always wanna feel this way Cause everytime I'm with you I feel true love, true love.