Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.

At least I hate myself as much as I hate anybody else.

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity.

Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.

Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.

Your vigor for life appalls me.

Bad business should be done without guilt if it is a source of income.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experiences they want their children to have.

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.

If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is promiscuous like nothing.

I have a lot of respect and admiration for someone like Cate Blanchett, find Emma Thompson wonderful, Meryl Streep inspiring, Juliette Binoche full of light and Catherine Deneuve incredible.

I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done.

No man preaches his sermon well to others if he does not first preach it to his own heart.

Living is having and following a purpose. That's all.