Writer Quotes

I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.

I try not to repeat a story. I try not to repeat an emotion. I want it to be all sort of new for the viewers and to challenge myself as a writer, so there's always pressure. What else can you come up with?

I think I would love a shot at remaking 'The Philadelphia Story,' as daunting as it is. I still think it's fantastic. I love the '30s comedies because they're allowed to be both comic and elegant, and the women are so complicated in them.

I really enjoy women and I totally understand and applaud the diversity that they have in terms of their emotions and intellects and vulnerability and strengths.

I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer.

I love funny women. I love writing funny women characters.

Here's what happens - you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then... people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment.

Every character when born is a stereotype.

Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

There are too many good comic book writers out there. I'd rather remain a fanboy.

One movie I come back to time and again is 'The Hustler.' I don't think there's better dialogue in any film.

Nothing lives up to what you imagine. It changes, shifts, becomes something else.

I'm Jewish, so I don't know much about Easter eggs.

I just want to keep learning.

All I can say is, death is a part of life.

When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.

There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it's writing a check or digging a

The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.