If I want to feel as if I'm being sucked down a fathomless gloomy tunnel for hours and hours then I have a complete set of Schopenhauer at home.

...a tall, gaunt man with small narrow eyes set deep in his skull like two old sisters trying to spy out of the windows of their house without being noticed themselves.

Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?

I'm pretty much a workaholic, but when you're doing what you love it's hard to think of a reason to stop.

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.

Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.

If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.

Just let it happen and, I promise you, all that is magic will appear.

Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.

Trust, therefore, for the overcoming of a difficulty, not to long-continued study after you have once become bewildered, but to repeated trials at intervals.

It's more work to create poverty, disease and disharmony than it is to create health, harmony and abundance, because perfect health, harmony and abundance are the natural order of things.

I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film.