Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

What ages you faster, suffering or experience?

Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.

It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink With little children saying grace In every Christian kind of place.

In learning to utilize antibiotics for the control of human and animal diseases, the medical and veterinary professions have acquired powerful tools for combating infections and epidemics.

I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

keep your hand moving

Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces.