'A Christmas Story' has always meant a lot to me personally.

I think if you turn down the volume on the good comedy, you should not even know if it's a comedy or not. It should look like a drama.

I've had a nontabloid life because I had a really good family.

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

I only get involved with projects as a producer if I feel creatively inspired.

When you plan something that is unpragmatic, it proves that you do not have a lot of knowledge about your topic that you are mentioning to others.

He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it.

The Sacred Bombshell knows that her creative feminine energy is a catalyst. She remembers her womb wisdom.

Effective love is rarely efficient.

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

I really thought twice about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when that came in. I always was of a mind that it's an inherently stupid idea to put something like that in a glass case.

When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world.

Why do I ask for directions? Because I hate wasting time.

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.