The Kiril Islands had changed hands more times than a good coin in a whorehouse.

As it almost always was when I'd been too self-centered to see the truth of the matter, I felt impossibly foolish.

Being crazy about someone isn't nice or passionate or deeply moving; it is, surprisingly enough, crazy.

Repeat after me, Mr. Black: I do believe in commas. I do, I do.

I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.

The books are the books, and a lot of the stuff is some version of your id or your ego.

I'm gonna start off somewhere small like London or England.

Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don't believe what you see, don't believe all this marketing.

In a film, you always try to have your main character be changed by the end.

We've had parallel lives. And frankly, I prefer mine to his. I would not like to be George Bush.

My favorite Halloween candy is the candy corn. It comes in four colors: white, yellow, orange, brown. Those are also the stages of your teeth rotting after you eat it.

Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.

There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, because there isn't enough Torah study.

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.