I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.

It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls.

It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.

There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell you why it's funny, and it's difficult to reason someone out of an erection.

In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.

What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.

To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?