To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.

What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period.

If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's nothing else but bad.

The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of those zombie writers who take 'screenwriting' classes that teach them the formulas for 'hit films.'

When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.