If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that’s a perfect day. I know a lot of people who are great at it and make it look easy who are tortured and miserable people. Writing for me is perfect peace.

Try taking a stand on just one leg. You need to see both sides.

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

I'm very much of the "make it dark, make it grim, make it tough", but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

You know what? I was wrong. You are an idiot. My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more than I can handle.

I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.

Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.