You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.

Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors.

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.