She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.

If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.

I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

Our imagination and hope become a reality if we have the courage to believe and take action to realize them.

Dexter Morgan is more like disguise and influence... and everything = fake.

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

The more technique there is, the less there is

Ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you

By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

Not by talking, but by praying And becoming something good, Can we offer peace to the world.

This problem, once solved, will be simple.