Nothing human surprises me.

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.

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

A good question is always a question that helps you and me grow, no matter what the answer might be.

Those do dare take risks, shall fulfill their passions.

when we're done, I'll be where the night never stopscradling a bruise that's shaped like youwondering why sleep never came to mewondering how I still dreamed

But sometimes a shattered view is the only way to see truth.

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

I think it is going to take another fifty years for the report to be in. If I were to give a preliminary report, I would say that [Margaret Thatcher] wrecked this country.

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.

In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment Roseanne dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine seasons. It was mysteriously instantaneous!