I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.

Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion.

Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.

People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.

Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here

Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.

It is very sad how some people pray to God to take away their pain and sufferings, but then turn around and consciously inflict pain on others.

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.

Yes, He is ris'n who is the First and Last; Who was and is; who liveth and was dead; Beyond the reach of death He now has pass 'd, Of the one glorious Church the glorious Head.

Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.

Never focus on what you can’t do - only imagine everything you could.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes.

You usually never know what you're going to do when you're making a movie.