When I first started, there were writers that I looked up to that I felt very influenced by and very respectful toward their work and their opinion of my work.

I'm a terrible musician. While the band members are great, I'm tolerated and affectionately regarded because I do movies, but if I had to make my living as a musician I would starve. I'm like a Sunday tennis player.

Once munching has begun, Schopenhauer held, the human will cannot resist further munching, and the result is a universe with crumbs over everything.

Child molestation is a touchy subject... Read the papers! Half the country's doing it!

We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth.

In every generation there are a few people who are authentically funny. The cosmetics change. You may not be able to articulate it, and you may laugh at them and get a certain amount of enjoyment. But when you're asleep at night, and you wake up at 3 in the morning, and you're alone in your bed, you know who's really funny.

Achilles only had an Achilles heel, I have an entire Achilles body.