Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.

And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.

That's what you get for ignoring the beauty of Tupperware.

I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.

The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.

We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.

I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.

Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient.

The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

I grew up in a household in which the Bible played very little role.

If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.

You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.

I hate doing features because rappers take forever to get you their verses.

Don't think about what you've left behind... everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.

When you put a big budget into a film, it doesn't necessarily mean it will be a better picture, but it does help in creating new images on the screen.

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.