No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person

In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.

If you were a real fascistic society and you had a vocal minority that was shouting, "Stop this, stop that, stop the other thing," what you would say is, "Let's give them all the drugs they want." In a lot of states, something very much like that happened. They lowered the drinking age to eighteen and said, "Get juiced."

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.

Do you happen to have another Condom? I think I've discovered the cure for headaches.

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.