Anesthetized time; nothing moves and everything is at once.

He knows that there's no better way in the world to aggravate somebody who's trying to make it hard for you than by acting like you're not bothered.

The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

Always stay in your own movie.

No one's ever dared come out and say it before, but there's not a man among us that doesn't think it, that doesn't feel just as you do about her and the whole business - feel it somewhere down deep in his scared little soul.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.