The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

Yo! You’re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I’d have asked for it, Motherfucker!

“Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer’s life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it’s my whole life.

Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.

One of the things that struck me as unique about Hollywood is that I never had bad meetings. There were all enthusiastic, but meaninglessly enthusiastic.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

I was an infinitely hot and dense dot.

It's in great joy that we grasp truth.

I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

You will never be tougher than you are now. Children are the toughest creatures on the planet. They endure.

Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.

I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm livingmy baby you'll be.

To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.

Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

You might wanna rethink that, boy. 'Cause if I'm going to get sued for offensively touching you, I'm going to make it worth my while.

With every (informative) photograph, the photographic program becomes poorer by one possibility while the photographic universe becomes richer by one realization.