Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever.

The guns reminded me that this was just an attempt to punch holes in the darkness that enveloped us now.

No one decision in life is so big that you have to live the rest of your life in regret. You can always make a new decision and turn things around.

It was in the in-between time when he felt lost.

Change has come to America.

Ketchup is great on hamburgers, but if some gets on your shirt, that does not make your shirt also a hamburger.

In my mind, I never doubted whether I was going to achieve what I wanted to do. I just had to decide what it is I wanted to do.

For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.

I am pushed by my critics. I don't want to say I want to prove them wrong, but it pushes me on the field to play with a chip on my shoulder, and I play best when I have a chip on my shoulder.

I want to touch people's hearts, to get right down to their souls.

If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.

The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.