I made a living out of being a class clown

When life is hard, you have to change.

Life isn't a tiptoe through the tulips

We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.

I need to start caring about myself if I'm going to be a proper father.

I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that!

I'll close my eyes really, really tight and make you all go away.

Keep on dreaming boy cause when you stop dreaming it's time to die.

I want to do more. I'm never satisfied with what I've done

There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.

There's a lot that you can be And ain't it a pity But its alright to smile back at me

Suicide isn't something people do to hurt other people. It's something people do to release themselves from pain.

There are moments in life that one certainly believes he is alive.

...China has announced that...it will hold the beach volleyball contest at the site of the 1989 massacre. Even Hitler didn't have the chutzpah to stage the 100-yard dash at Dachau.

Since light is best expressed through differences in color quality, color should not be handled as a tonal gradation, to produce the effect of light.

In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.

I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know.

I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.

Directing is a constant test of your communicative powers. You're constantly trying to explain people your vision of what you want and steer these tiny little details into a cohesive thing.

Libraries can take the place of God.