It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.

Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.

I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.

I went to Spago once, eight years ago. I had just closed a deal. I thought it would be fun to go to Spago and it wasn't. I got a bad table and nobody paid any attention to me.

I was thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we can just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we got something here.

Don’t just remain that accidental product.

It is one thing to have the gift of seeing the spirits and hearing the Gods who move about us as we come and go

Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.

I have supped mead with lords and ladies; so to have I slumbered in nameless lanes and gored upon mutton.

I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.

If you try to shoot me, I will have to shoot you back and I promise I will not miss.

I don’t understand why things always go from perfect to weird with us. It’s like we’re incapable of normal human interaction.

I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.

A thought is a substace, producing the thing that is imagined by the thought.