I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

Im going to be shaking my booty when Im 55.

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!

For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

I've raised my daughter with no television.

TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

Life is sweet, life is also very short.

The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.

Have I been wrong? Have I been wise to shut my eyes?

Successful teaching is not head-to-head

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

[On the Gaussian curve, remarked to Poincaré:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be an experimental fact.

I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.

The thing that sucks is that there’s so much false data because people are in mystery as to what Scientology is, so they just kind of make up stuff.

As for me, the only stuff I've ever had success with is when I'm trying to be completely original and not thinking about mirroring what else is out there.

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.

For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.