The future is but the obsolete in reverse.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

No work for God's grace.

I Only Believe What I See But I Question Everything I Hear

When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.

Ideally, we'd want an Irishman coming in for the job, but, ideally it doesn't really matter.

I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans, who are trained to kill me, so don't think for one second that you can come down here, flash your badge and make me nervous.

It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed

I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.

Preconceived notions and rules are antithetical to the creative process.

You must be the brother. I hope so, I'm wearing his pants.

A good friend is one of the hardest things to keep in this life. Don't forget that sometimes you have to work at it.