I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.

People do not change, they are merely revealed.

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

I have no place left to live but in my own heart.

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.

I do like the process of producing. Later in my career, like when I had the TV show, I was a producer and I've been on a few things.

I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because I was always using her as my mother, if you know what I mean.

I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.

What changes your world is not wishing for change; what changes your world is changing!

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.

The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next!

There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.

Every people, like every person, . . . has a right to be itself.

I must know every aspect of my personal finances. Managing your money will help you make your money work for you.