Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through his mind on its way to the page.

I always thought it was great to be able to make people feel better. It was a little like being God.

When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the main characters - what they need, what they want, what they should do. That's what gets the story going. You can't just have action, you've got to find out what the characters want. And then they must grow, they must go somewhere.

I love spaghetti and sex, sometimes together. My dream of heaven is walking naked through fields of pasta fazool.

I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.