Cut him. Cut him while I stand here and watch. I want to see the blood flow. Don't make me tell you twice.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage.

God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once.

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.