"Once you have the first draft it's living, and you can coax it to grow and trim it and reshape it and so on. But get that first draft."

“You can't do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you're letting somebody down.”

“Solutions must be based on compromises.”

“If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.”

“I support myself. My wife and I together - it's all our household. I'm really proud of that.”

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“The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.”

“I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.”

“I hate McDonald's. I don't want to order my dinner by yelling into a clown's mouth. If I want my face in a clown's mouth, I'll tongue kiss Glenn Beck.”

“When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.”