Sometimes I wish I was a guy. Life’s so much easier for them.

Being different is the only way to live

She looked at me with those empty eyes, and I thought, I'm going to make sure I fill them up with something.

It’s when I’m around some people that my entire vocabulary goes on vacation. Like now

I didn’t say you weren’t smart. I said you were stupid.”“I guess I’m too dumb to see the difference.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevit

It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33 — but that’s a damn sight better than not growing up at all.

At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.

The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today.

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.

Everything that I make I use.

Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn in cultural literacy, perhaps because of television.

Let us put away our blinders and answer the call to Joy.

Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils