Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own?

It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.

Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.

You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

Exactly. How can you know it makes you happy if you’ve never experienced it?”“There are different kinds of happy, ” she said. “Some kinds don’t need any proof.

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

Tis always morning somewhere in the world.

I used to always be the young one playing without pressure, but I am just happy to be where I am and enjoying my time.

My biggest critics have never read me.

We knew that, in doing something that's based around the world of the movie and how popular that is, we really wanted to do the biggest show that we've ever done, in terms of the look of the show.

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.

I win on my merits; my opponents win by cheating.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.