Look...it's empty...as empty as a politician's promise!

Practice until it becomes boring, then practice until it becomes beautiful.

Nothing I do can't be done by a ten-year-old...with fifteen years of practice.

Remember, your not your props, create the magic.

I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me nowis a beginning or an end.

Home is the place I can live with myself, without hating myself.

Always stop to think whether your fun may be the cause of another's unhappiness

Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.

I'm not optimistic at all, nor am I pessimistic.

When somebody you've known for 20 years, and with whom you have a full context, winks at you or whatever, it can be huge. I think in a sense what you're trying to re-create in fiction is that.

So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.