Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.

Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.

I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn’t see any way to change things. Only end them.

My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.

Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.