I've always liked, someday the lamb will lay by the lion.... but it won't get much sleep.

You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert.

I think Frank Capra was a much craftier filmmaker, a wonderful filmmaker. He had enormous technique, and he knew how to manipulate the public quite brilliantly.

Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

Am I my brother's keeper? Yes. Interestingly, in my case, I share that honor with the Prospect Park Zoo.

There are two important things in the world, the first is sex. The other isn't all that important.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.