Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.

I generally don't like living in a world where being what a man is, is a horrible thing; and no matter what a woman is, is a wonderful thing.

What I'm trying to do is be righteous. And when I say “righteous,” I don't mean God. You know? God- Righteous. I mean just when I wake up, I know I was honest to myself.

Women don't want to win, they want a winner.

Women expect us to like them, but they don't even like each other

People say life ain't fairlife is very fair. People aren't fairpeople are terrible.

I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.

Having women work with men is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon . . . dipped in honey.

Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill - but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.

I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.

I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, 'Uhhh, I'm done' when I eat.

Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.

The ship is always off course. Anybody who sails knows that. Sailing is being off course and correcting. That gives a sense of what life is about.

...what distinguishes pulp fiction from great literature is how emphatically the work challenges us to interpret it.

Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.

I swear he's just so freaking smoldering, you have to see him." She shakes her head, annoyed that I can't join in on the fun. "He's like combustible!

I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so.

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.

Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.