Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.

No one ever wants the whole script. I give the whole script to people who require the whole script but to those people who don't require the whole script I don't give it to them and no one cares. They're relieved not to have to read extra pages that they're not in.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

I don't know enough to be incompetent.

I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife

If I could just hope to have a major talent, then I would rather have it in music than in any other field.

The roe is reputed to sleep for a thousand years and then suddenly rise in flames, particularly if it was smoking when it dozed off.