That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives.

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

You can be distracted by your love life, by the baseball game, movies, by the nonsense. "Can I get my kid into this private school? Can I get this girl to go out with me Saturday night? Am I going to get the promotion in my office?" All this stuff, but in the end the universe burns out. So I think it's completely meaningless.

I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the organized hustles.

There are three things Jewish people worship-God, Chinese food and wall-to-wall carpeting.

The wicked at heart probably know something.

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.