I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth in this rise and fall here [indicates blackboard]. The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.