I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.

We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.

People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!

Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.

Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

Writers owed their readers a duty of care, of mercy.

Where would we be in this soulless universe if there weren't a few people who hold on to memories, their hearts yearning for long-lost feelings?

Without the library, you have no civilization.

I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others if not more.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.

Mediocre people hate high achievers, and high achievers hate mediocre people.