Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

You know, what's interesting is, being your own self is kind of a blur.

When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.

When I was a kid, I used to watch 'Laurel and Hardy' with my cousins all the time. I still think they're extremely funny and so surreal.

When I was doing 'The Sopranos,' I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.

The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.

Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

Hope comes in many forms.

It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at what he does.

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It's nothing about the medium itself.

Water flows, but never changes. It's always H2O.

But because human being tend to focus on short-term benefits and our own immediate needs, such tragedies of the commons occur frequently .

To understand and be understood is to be free.

The kind of people who become graphic artists may not be mathematically inclined. They're artists, artistically inclined.

I needed two stitches after Alex kicked the boot at me. (on Ferguson)

It is better for me to die in behalf of Jesus Christ, than to reign over all the ends of the earth.

Im from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

Truths kindle light for truths.

Once you start believing in yourself, anything is possible.

If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice.