You must show how gruesome that death is because if you don't, then you turn into some kind of comic book and pain, then death, doesn't have a consequence, and pain doesn't have a consequence.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.

Politics has become entertainment.

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

The Women Who Can Wait For Her ManTill Dawn, Without Any Argument, Are Priceless.

As you near a finish line, do not slow down. Instead, run faster. Give all you have left until it is done. It is then that you may collapse.

The precision required for life to exist cannot be fathomed as we know it

Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.

It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.

Heaven... I'm in heaven, and my heart beats so that I can hardly speak.

To those who ask if I have read their book, I reply: I have not yet read Homer.

Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.

A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.