It's harder to be funny from the position of power.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me . . they’re cramming for their final exam.

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

There is a planet named Pluto, but we don't have one named Goofy. Goofy would be a good name for this planet. It certainly qualifies.

It is hard to write it in words that I can read, that re-establishes the fact that has been haunting me for the past one year.

All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people.

I try to maintain a high level of coolness. Which means I've gotta look at lot of magazines. I've gotta look at a lot of ads to see what people want to wear.

Within each of us, there is a silence, a silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who we are.

When enough people agree on something, I'd be an idiot, if I didn't listen.

What you mean by 'peace' is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly.

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.

A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

If you hate my guts and have designs to hurt me, and I see you building a cannon aimed at my house, I am not going to wait for you to finish construction.