The things left unsaid to people we care about, and the void those unspoken words leave, often have more impact than what is said.

I'm a Polaroid developing in reverse

I personally don't think about jumping because things can't possibly get worse... To the contrary, I contemplate it because I believe things probably will.

I hand him the single greatest work of fiction known to man: my resume.

The camera's greedy lens sucks my image through it and splashes my pixilated ghost across his face in pale blue light.

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.

The sweetest fruits grow at the top of a tree so that only those who deserve them can reach them.

I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.

I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.

Surgery is always second best. If you can so something else, it’s better. Surgery is limited. It is operating on someone who has no place else to go.

Scripts are kind of a bare bones type of reading material.

Capitalism, as a result of its own inner contradictions, moves toward a point when it will be unbalanced, when it will simply become impossible.

Intimacy is really good. But then again, the first disk on the record is not intimate in the least. It's a really good CD.

Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.