If your parents bring you no shame, be very grateful. If you're proud of them, celebrate.

The poor who commit murder, rape and robbery are not only not starving, they have far more material things than the word ‘poverty’ suggests.

I'm from the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of screenwriting. I just like to preserve what works and ignore what doesn't work.

To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.

The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.

Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.

Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture.

The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways.

Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.

Beware by whom you are called sane.