I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.

I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now.

Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.

Cheese. The adult form of milk.

The human comedy begins with a vertical smile.

Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do.

Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.

Over-eating is the most worthy of sins. It neither breaks up marriages nor causes road accidents.

Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.

Peace is not about who you can live with, but who you can't live without.

Thousands of reason are too less to make me sad but a single reason is enough to make me smile.

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst Mankind living close together.

If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation.

I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.