In fact, we live in a culture where intelligence, exceptional or not, is reviled.

Screenwriting is not an artform, it is a punishment from God.

[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.

Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.