I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.

Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

True love withstands the storms of life.

personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble

Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

People who have "their own issues" often don't stand back and look at the big picture- they're too busy orchestrating their own issues.

OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.