By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.

A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health.

I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check.

Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run.

That's what is was to be young — to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

A man should be more original than a bouquet of roses and a box of chocolates. Flowers die and sugar sticks to your hips like a permanent record to a criminal.

Her eyes felt swollen, and she knew she looked a mess, but sometimes...sometimes the emotions were just too big to hold.

To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

I never talk about my personal life. After these rumours, I definitely do not want to comment on anything.

First of all, on a cinematic [level], the film answer to that is that Roger Corman was creatively responsible for a lot of cinema history.

What can you take from me which is not already yours?

I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason.

The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over two or three hours.

Just how could a nation often be great if it's bread tastes want Kleenex.

Just being young and growing up in this business is hard. Just growing up in general is hard.