Killing someone usually turns out to be an enormously complicated solution to what was a much simpler problem.

How old did you have to be before you learned the difference between the simulacrum of love and the reality?

The dead should not have to answer to the claims of the living, even the sharpest grief.

No, the magic doesn't wear off at midnight. It's much more powerful than that. It comes from you. You wanted something, and so it came to be.

I'm lucky I have really cool parents.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.

You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.

Let's put research into the hands of legitimate scientists, not pot profiteers.

There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.

What the Depression teaches us is that when the economy is so depressed that even a zero interest rate isn't low enough, you have to put conventional notions of prudence and sound policy aside.

The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.

I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach.