I've always been entranced with theater.

Yo! You’re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I’d have asked for it, Motherfucker!

“Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer’s life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it’s my whole life.

Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.

One of the things that struck me as unique about Hollywood is that I never had bad meetings. There were all enthusiastic, but meaninglessly enthusiastic.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

I was an infinitely hot and dense dot.

The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

It's in great joy that we grasp truth.

I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

so this crow comes and it starts quacking at us.

Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about.

As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.

Whatsume'er the failings on his part, Remember reader he were that good in his hart.

To obey the commands of Scripture can finally become a delight when we see that the reasons almost always center around God's love and provision for us in Christ.

Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product.

A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less, my understanding of what it is to have a child.

There's me and then there's you, and you aren't ever going to be as good as me, Sweet Thing." Ranger

It's hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.

The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.