Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops.

Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.

I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

The scariest people are usually the sweetest.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

'Hostel' is that's how I feel about what's going on in Iraq. There's people that just want money and people are being sacrificed for it.

I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.

Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.

I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it.

Despite the voices of the culture that would scream otherwise, victory is irreparably tied to the surrender of self. And that explains why so few are truly victorious.

Life is too short to waste on unproductive endeavors

Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.

My childhood was absolutely the worst place I've ever been," "It was terrible.

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt every morning and no eye shine upon them.

A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance.

Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are admistered on the knee, shoulder, and arm.