I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence.

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.

Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.

Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.

And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, not the mirror.

To see the beauties, mysteries and magics of your existence look at it with intense love, child's wonder and joyful heart.

Having a ‘taste for life’ is about knowing its various flavours and awaiting the next meal.

Being a big Braves fan, Turner Field would be cool to play a show at.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

My favorite herb - lamb's bread. Kali. I like Hawaiian. But for some reason, you communicate better with Jamaican herb. The best Jamaican herb, it have more energy, more everything to it.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

You always get told how important the premiere and doing the press is, but I have suspicions.