There was a lot to be said for a man’s capacity to be comfortable while alone.

If it is true that nature abhors a vacuum, then criminality regards it as a business opportunity.

Dogs were generally incompatible with melancholy.

Indeed a lie is often more plausible than the truth. "Almost" always. The truth, of course, is never very plausible.

It is your eyes that guide me home.

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.

Do not kick people when they are down because you will surely fall right beside them.

I have younger kids, and I adopted them late in life. They don't know these people [from Annie Hall] at all.

Did you think that I forgot you? Did you think I'm going away? Did you feel like I was don't care for you? No. I am here to stay.

War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization

I guess I would model myself after the Bill Condons, the Frank Darabonts and the David Nutters if I were to direct a feature, which I would love to do, by the way.

I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.