When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, the whole palace is upset. “You must go back to sleep, ” her mother tells her, “It’s not time.” From what she understands, the Prince hasn’t come to rescue her yet.

The day the Dragon chooses a male virgin instead of a female as his yearly sacrifice, the entire kingdom erupts into mass protests and anger.

I’ve always wondered about your name, ” Misha said to Hijja while scraping a bit of space gunk from the window of their spaceship.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regrettedmost of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

I just want to make different movies. I want them to be things that I care about and not to repeat myself.

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

Asking Saudi Arabia and Iran to work together, when they can't stand each other and are engaged in a proxy battle right at this moment.

No polity can be devised which shall perpetuate freedom among a people that are dead to honor and integrity. Liberty and virtue are twin sisters, and the best fabric in the world . . . .

His instincts should have warned him sooner than they had, but thanks to his agimortus, he'd been hobbled like a brood mare waiting to be mounted by a randy stallion

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.

I do all the work so it's only right that I should get the most money. Plus I am the most handsome.

As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.