I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

God, change the burden of my heart to be like a gentle rain which falls equally on all

I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

People who say "it is impossible", should not interrupt those who are trying to make it possible.

It's part of developing the whole state of how cinema is; everyone is looking out and engaged rather than it being just a financial thing or sitting back, waiting for scripts to turn up.

I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed.

Jay Leno's the only guy on earth who could have a bobble head made of him that would bobble less than his actual head.

Your behavior determines, to some extent, the destiny of your nation and your group.

I’m a passionate architect... I do not work for money

I am happy. I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve. I am happy.