One of the things that struck me as unique about Hollywood is that I never had bad meetings. There were all enthusiastic, but meaninglessly enthusiastic.

Yo! You’re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I’d have asked for it, Motherfucker!

“Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer’s life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it’s my whole life.

Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

I was an infinitely hot and dense dot.

The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

It's in great joy that we grasp truth.

I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

I was raised to farm work.

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

I don't think anyone is going to Hell, because it only exists in the minds of people who wish ill will on others.

When it's time to write a new song, anything that you thought you understood last time is pretty much pulverized.

If my life were a song it would be called 'Don't Stop Believing'. Yeah.

Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.

Politeness smooths wrinkles.

I have a flat tummy, but I'm not rock hard. If I'm going to be in a bikini, I'll train more and skip desserts for a couple of weeks. But usually, I work out to feel good.

The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.