There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.

Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.

Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.

All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing.

A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.

Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.

Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.

Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.

Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.

Nothing's easier than believing we understand experiences we've never had.

When I was 11, I made truffle risotto for my family for Christmas dinner.

What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.

I am honored to be a part of that film. It has a really important message, embracing one's individuality. It was the most universal film I've ever read.

Each man is for his lord, do not give chase.

Relax into the present moment.

There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway.

I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.