I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.

This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.

I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us.

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker

It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns.