My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

Be yourself, DO NOT ACT.

Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.

The secret of life is love, but the purpose of life is happiness.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.

Some guys are more worried about their Vegas trip at the end of the season than playing the games, than playing every minute of the games. Quite frankly, I don't care about your Vegas trip right now.

Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.

Reality is negotiable.

I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.