I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

A busy life is not necessarily an effective life

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

It was pretty common to form bands that only lasted a few years. Slint was my favorite band that I was in at the time, and I didn't realize that I was bummed out about it until quite a while later.

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it.

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine and it hasn't.

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set.