I lie as truthfully as I can.

There's nothing like privacy. You know, I like people. It's nice that they might like my books and all that...but I'm not the book, see? I'm the guy who wrote it, but I don't want them to come up and throw roses on me or anything. I want them to let me breathe.

"Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me."

If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting.

I don't remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.