I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

All high mathematics serves to do is to beget higher mathematics.

If you wait to live you will never succeed. Living begins today and it begins within you.

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

No American should be forced to choose between their spouse and their country.

I don't feel like I'm half as important as Elliott Smith or Kurt Cobain. And I'm not going to be somebody that became so unhappy that he succumbed.

Competition, of course there's always competition, and I like competition.

Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.

Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time.

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.