I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.

I'm not a young man, and I can find intensity in a lot of different ways, sometimes without even raising my voice. When I was younger, it was all about how I need three extra sets of lungs to get enough wind to get out the thing at the screaming level I need to, because that's the way it needs to be. Now, I see that there's a whole lot of other colors on the palette.

For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.

The more you own, the more it owns you.

if i was a woman these days, i'd be killing motherfuckers. my handgun would never cool and my hands would be covered in testicular blood. i would have a horrible reputation with a lot of men because i would be calling them on their weak bullshit left and right.

What I'm saying is America has a job deficit because hundreds of thousands of jobs went elsewhere. Not because [Barack] Obama raised your taxes. He, in fact, lowered them. They are lower.