A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

I think most of us can remember from our own childhood, just in the Disney cartoons, things that frightened us profoundly. For me it was Bambi, the scene when the forest was on fire. That was something I had nightmares about. I can't imagine being a little kid of eight and seeing Night Of The Living Dead with living corpses eating the flesh of living people.

Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.