Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

The only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they’ve written, they write some more.

The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker

For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.

In places like South Afghanistan, where cultural norms prevent men from entering homes, female vaccinators often make the difference between a closed or opened door.

Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.

I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.