Nice characters are boring! I like writing upbeat characters - that's my natural tendency.

All of us change. Everyone in this world, from birth to death, becomes someone new. Again and again, we are remade.

Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.

I am vulnerable, starved for kindness. And when I receive it, I lose my mind.

Moscow was, as some said, the most beautiful mistress a man could ever want, but never cross her: like any good woman, she might just cut off your balls for the hell of it.

Miracles pass and I see. Great wonders speak and I listen.

I've got a black-belt in crazy, and I know where you live.

Being alone was easier. No risk, just loneliness. No one ever died from that.

The one thing about being a creator, about being an artist, is that you get to explore your ideas. We're fortunate that we're in the position to do that, and I don't take it for granted.

Nice characters are boring!

Religion was no cure for dysfunction.

This (San Francisco) is the most beautiful city in America, Probably because it looks nothing like America

It's unfashionable to admit, but playing music makes us happy and makes us smile.

The key to No-Limit... is to put a man to a decision for all his chips.

We have seen enough criminality on the part of government. It is hypocritical to make this allegation against me. They have narrowed the public sphere of influence.

Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.

Actors! They travel the world and all they see is a mirror.

I love to get books, because I love to read.

Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.

Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.

It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."