Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.

It is not love, but lack of love which is blind.

New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home.

Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.

People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.

There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.

But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.

Design is an art, creative artist must have a beautiful mind

Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me.

I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet.

I knew Danny DeVito and he knew me, so he wanted me to try Death to Smoochy. I loved that stuff and had a great time doing it.

Now now, Emily, it isn't nice to tell the truth.

I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school.

He [Randy Rhoads] was really a good guy. I never could get over how incredibly little he was.

What were they thinking? 'It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!

Councils of War never fight.

If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.