In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?

Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.

I can't not put humor in a book.

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.

Relaxation is the absence of worry.

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization’s sadnesses.

Evan no longer tells people I fight bad guys for a living. When asked, he tells his friends that his dad talks on the phone a lot and vacuums on occasion.

Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is

Once that ship has sailed don't hold on to the anchor

The sense of anger I had when I was younger is something I thought would never go away. Over time, it's something you get almost bored with.

I know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

No mommy's kisses and no daddy's smile. Nobody wants me, I'm nobody's child.

We find it difficult to comprehend, and we deeply regret the decision as it is discriminatory in the sense that it targeted certain countries without a clear reason.

I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.