Rebelliousness really is the province of young people-that kind of iconoclasm.

I would like a wine. The purpose of the wine is to get me drunk. A bad wine will get me as drunk as a good wine. I would like the good wine. And since the result is the same no matter which wine I drink, I'd like to pay the bad wine price.

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river.

Be so good they can't ignore you.

Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.

I never touched a gun in my life. That and that alone forever doomed me to middle management.