Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor.

I'm not going to ruin my movie because of some stupid ruling that it has to be ninety minutes long. That's just like adding three more plates to the last supper, or an extra wing to the Pentagon.

My work is one long triumph over my limitations.

Nothing human surprises me.

Outside of taking care of a man’s needs, women don’t get much pleasure out of life, anyways.

With mindfulness there is more to unlearn than there is to learn.

The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and submit.

Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I’m a happy man.

Thank you... preseason football, for having all the excitement, commercials, and time-outs of the regular season, but with none of the mattering. I appreciate it. Thank you.

I write every day. Writing is a necessity - like eating.

I love the American musical for the simplicity of emotion that gets expressed.

Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important.

I think if you put something in a file that says "war poems" or "love poems" that you already restrict the way in which the poem might move.

Redefine the possible.

You know the slow-motion walking shot in "Reservoir Dogs"? That was in the Tommy Udo tradition. That strut, that way of wearing your suit, is what I think gangster chic is.