It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

Whenever we suffer — no matter what the severity of our suffering is — we have the ability to find meaning in the situation.

The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose one's own way.

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be what he will become in the next moment.

My life exists in an imagined reality.

I get angry at a principle, not a person.

Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficulté d'être, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague is. The early '60s was all about that.

Inside everybody's hiding something.

Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.

I'm down with just the Backstreet Boys.

The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.

They say drugs are not the answer, but really, what is the question?

A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.

We shouldn't be too naïve, or taken in by charisma.