Mistakes are as serious as the results they cause.

There's nothing in this universe that can't be explained, eventually.

Faith, that's another word for ignorance, isn't it? I never understood how people could be so proud of believing in something with no proof at all. Like that's an achievement.

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.

I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label.

Cocaine was different. It kept saying, "You haven't had enough." I became an abuser almost instantly.

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.

Find your mark, look the other fellow in the eye, and tell the truth.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.

All the people I've met, many outside of cinema, knew everything perfectly about one thing or one subject or one area.