I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.

Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.

I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

The scariest people are usually the sweetest.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

'Hostel' is that's how I feel about what's going on in Iraq. There's people that just want money and people are being sacrificed for it.

I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.

Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.

I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it.

Be like the flower, content with its nature.

What people say about others' behavior or character is not always true, Just Proffer it to your best judgement.

I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY.

Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it's got everything, man. It's got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It's beautiful.

Each choice has a consequence. Each consequence a destination.

I am sure all politicians will be convinced of the merits of this deal.

The truth is that there is no journey. You are right now what you are attempting to be. You are right now where you are attempting to go.

I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

Looking at someone in a deployed setting, it's not in their best interest to get pregnant overseas, but if it happens, it happens.

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.