Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man back home is talking, you better listen closely.

For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.

What unifies every part of my journey is I always lead with my curiosity, obsession, or fascination.

'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.

Everyday, it's about building a practice that enables you to try and forget that you're afraid.

All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.

Hollywood is a land of self-invention.

Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man from back home is talking, you better listen closely. (Dark City Lights)

Losing your job is a great blessing in disguise

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Thank you, sir. But, uh, can you tell me where the First New York Regiment is?

Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself.

Sociological critics are waste makers.

Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.

We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life, at least as a working hypothesis?

No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.

It might have been really cool back in the '50s when it was less populated but I don't know.

This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.