My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.

I think that’s the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you’re never going to grow up and you’re never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don’t wait

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.

Every day is the opportunity for a better tomorrow.

Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.

Kindness alchemizes the soul, and a sweeter, richer life is the delicious result.

Because I'm a monster, like my father before me and his father before him, and so on. There is no help for me.

I want to do wardrobe. I want to do hair. I want to do makeup. I want to do writing. I want to do directing. I want to do all of it. I like it. And I want to do producing.

On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second.

The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen.

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.

There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic.

I wish I wasn't so fragile / 'Cos I know that I'm not easy to handle

The problem with any ideology is that it gives you the answer before you examine the evidence.