It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.

My whole life, you have made decisions for me.""Your whole life, " Georgiana pointed out, "totals nine years.

If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor.

The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

I believe in God, family, and McDonald's. And in the office, that order is reversed.

The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.

I don't want to be so confident in myself.

And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.