To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast

There is nothing like race, is there?

I will love you always, because you will always be worthy of love.

I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.

Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

A problem is an opportunity viewed from a positive perspective.

Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things. And here we are with our crash helmets on, with concertina wire all around us.

Playing girls is cool, but its a lot more fun playing boys.

Well, I don't play heroes obviously. I never played the guy who gets the girl. It might be interesting to do a part where I was a father in a functional family.

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

It's interesting to have the awkward moments play out, and the real human interactions. The more you cut that down, you lose the joke, which is that this is painful and hard.

We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.

North Korea threatened to attack if Sony Pictures released The Interview, forcing us all to pretend that we wanted to see it.