There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.
The essential idea is that the quality of the result is continually at risk during the process of making.
Function is a fantasy. . . the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.
I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.
I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years, and I'm now beginning to learn how to do the job well.
Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it.
And there's wordplay and there's rhythms and you have to be able to get the poetry out of it. You have to be able to sell my jokes. And if you're talking about somebody like Sam Jackson, they do that. Sam Jackson can do that. Sam Jackson can turn it into the spoken word that it was always meant to be and he can sell my jokes. And Christopher Walken can do it and a lot of people can do it, all right.