The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to see Broadway shows, is something I've never liked.

If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.

When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

I realize that I am never going to grow up.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product.

The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many.

I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

The difficulty in living our religion is when we haven't totally made the commitment necessary.

Love is a complicated path, and that path can lead us up to heaven or hurl us down into hell.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

Before you can come to know your purpose, you must come to know yourself.

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.