The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

A writer always writes.

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

Where do men find it in themselves to do such monstrous things?

Employees go to school for 12 – 18 years merely to impress prospect employers in a 12 – 18 minutes interview.

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.

One of the pleasures of being an actor is that it takes you places you wouldn't ordinarily go, and you don't enter as a tourist, you really enter the life of the place.

Some of you, your success has messed you up! You've lost your bite! You're not hungry anymore!

Distraction is the most corrosive disease of the 20th century.

I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.

Nobody is "superior" to anybody else, only "different", that is all!

A lot of people find themselves in the entertainment business - or perhaps society steers them toward it - because they're beautiful.

I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.