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"I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner."
"I cannot smell mothballs because it's so difficult to get their little legs apart."
"Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration."
"I used to smoke marijuana. But I'll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening - or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early mid-afternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . But never at dusk!"
"Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol."
"I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87."
"Love is a promise delivered already broken."
"...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs."
"I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't."
"Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is."
"Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town."
"I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out."
"... you're nuts but you're welcome here."
"The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer."
"I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too."
"I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups."
"It's pain that changes our lives."
"Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!"
"I used to think a wedding was a simple affair. Boy and girl meet, they fall in love, he buys a ring, she buys a dress, they say I do. I was wrong. That's getting married. A wedding is an entirely different proposition."
"I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it."