You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine.

When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden.

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing.