Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.

Honey! Bring down a copy of my will - and an eraser!

To you, I'm an atheist.To God, I'm the loyal opposition.

God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction

Don't waste today by talking about yesterday until it's finally tomorrow.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.

I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.

When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.

A best friend is a sister that destiny forgot to give you.