Really interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don't fall asleep.

I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.

A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.

I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.

I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.

I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars. A rabbi is just a scholar.

In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.

Tis time to die, when 'tis a shame to live.

Interlude with sunshine. Hello monday mein lazy freund.

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.

That's the problem with white horses. You have to pay for them yourself or you'll always be using someone else's reins.

I'm in the movie business; it's meant to be very cutthroat. But you won't find anybody that ever says I cheated them or manipulated them.

Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.

I'd sell my soul to the devil if he'd buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something besides a "thoroughly nice girl" for one short year.

The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.

I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.