Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it.

Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity. I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why should I run for a million?

It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.

Everybody understood that if the proof is correct then no other recognition is needed.

I know how to control the Universe. Why would I run to get a million, tell me?

If they need my C.V., they don’t know my work.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

The profoundest of all sensualitiesis the sense of truthand the next deepest sensual experienceis the sense of justice.

they were in love with apocalypse, like all men, more in love with myths than with any woman.

In every experience we get to choose either love or fear as a response. Your character is formed by the percentages of those choices, which then forms your life.

At the end of the day, I'm Violet's mom, and I want the best for her.

Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth?

If I have something I want to do, I make a business of doing it.

I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

I will not be what I was made, but what I make.

Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.

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