Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.

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.

Watch people when they win, and you will learn something. But watch them when they lose, and you will learn even more.

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.

It's amazing how many people you see on TV. I did my first television show a month ago, and the next day five million television sets were sold. The people who couldn't sell theirs threw them away.

Know yourself. Be yourself. Love yourself. Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

I have said for a long time that I thought the president would be best served if the attorney general resigned so I think it's the right thing to do.

The chief end of missions is the supremacy of God in the joy of all peoples.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be patient and wait

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

So take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it.