Our family never had any hard luck because nothing seemed hard luck to it nor was it ever disgraced for there was nothing which it would acknowledge as disgrace.

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!

I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.

I hate acting classes. I did a few, but I've always hated acting classes. I prefer to just watch a movie or watch TV and take it from there.

The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesnt get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.

Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.

I have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply.

Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were