I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."

Of course I love you. For real. I will sure come and personally meet you myself. Just to make sure you're well. When is your funeral?

Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved.

If C++ has taught me one thing, it's this: Just because the system is consistent doesn't mean it's not the work of Satan.

Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.

I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

Don't say I gotta do anything in life. There is nothing you gotta do. But I want to.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

I guess one person can make a difference.