I stress character, character, character.

Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.

The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.

We all want to be renewed, don't we?

I think that if in your heart, you are seeking out a real puzzle, and you're not looking to frighten anybody, you're not looking to upset anybody, and you're looking to discuss a subject that you yourself went through when you were nine - you just don't remember the difficulties of one's own childhood.