Girls don't poop, so don't claim you do. You can fart - because farting is funny - but we don't want to know that you poop.

There is a devil inside each one of us. Some just know to hide it too well.

[A dog is] a bundle of pure love, gift-wrapped in fur.

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.

Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don't represent peace. They represent evil and war.

Young children are such nasty little beasts!

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.

I’ve always been a person who’s been true to myself and true to others and I’m not afraid to be honest.

It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.