I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.

Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.

Thank God for imminent doomsday.

Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.

Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.

Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.

The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.

The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.

Oh what a shame, if she thought any beauty that she has came from him. She didn't understand the beauty of her own skin.

There’s no way I can care properly for my children if I don’t first care for myself.

Studies find that kids who are punished are more likely to misbehave in the future. Punishment actually increases the undesired behavior.

It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.

You need those people to also have power and authority, and in a way that has been the story of my career.

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum created by your retreat from popular culture.

I actually liked the disolation of winter; it was the season when it was okay to be unhappy. If I were to ever kill myself, I thought it would be in the summer.

I see people driving cars, winding down the streets. I don't know where these people think they're going. They're going to the funeral home; that's about it.

Love's a recurring theme through my work.