A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread.

Every silver spoon is tarnished.

Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

No matter what's offered to me, I would never in a million years be the big headed Hollywood type.

Houston Alexander is for real!

I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).

One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.

If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.

I ain't a rapper; I'm a motivational speaker. I don't do shows; I do seminars. I really talk to people.