I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.

When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

I realize that I am never going to grow up.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.

Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.

In violent and chaotic times such as these our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order in making little havens of our homes.

It's great to make your own choices, but there's a price to pay. I could've made more money or been more famous. I could be the current groovy guy.

I will always support legalization of the entheogens, which are, without a doubt, the most important and the most grossly misunderstood medicines on earth.

Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone.

I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.

My favourite people to follow on Twitter are... my fans. They make me laugh so much and keep me smiling.

Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.

In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.