Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.

If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.

I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

You never can change the reality without changing the perception.

Expect stupid. It's everywhere.

Why spend a lifetime wishing for something that you could have through a consistent positive imagination, hard work, faith, and God's grace?

Until we make the unconscious conscious, we will be dictated by it and call it fate.

Once upon a time, you dragged a part of me into the world of the dead, and now Naoko has dragged another pat of me into that world.

[Lauren Ambrose's] character [in Can't Hardly Wait] feels real and unexaggerated and becomes sort of a heroine archetype. I think that was cool. It wasn't in every one of those comedies.

Man's the bad child of the universe

I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just me and maybe one other coloured face.

I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.