I wish you wusses would stop whining about your unhappiness. I'm really fed up with it. Pour yourself a scotch and pull yourself together. Go out and shoot something!

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave out as what you put in.

Remember what the Bible says: He who is without sin, cast the first rock. And I shall smoketh it.

Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.

I'm an honorary consul general so I have inviolability.

I get to meet people from all walks of life, from all different countries, from different backgrounds.

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

I don't put much faith in the political system because it's a question of how are you going to run capitalism, not how are we going to develop a different system to capitalism.

I hope to find the perfect band as well, I really do, and I'm working very hard to find that band.

I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.