Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.

With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.

...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.

If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I see it another way: Her mind is being overwhelmed by two processes that must simultaneously proceed at full steam. One is to deal with and live in the present world. The other is to re-experience and mourn something that happened long ago. It is as though her lightness pulls her toward heaven, but the extra gravity around her keeps her earthbound.

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.

You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.