Our tears are trying to serve a purpose, but we rarely let them. I don't know how we got started with subverting that purpose.

Where's the everlasting peace? Is there even such a thing? Or do we war like alien races war, eternally, against ourselves?

just know that it takes a bit of courage to unlearn that shame, and to be there for others when they try to unlearn that shame, and that it all gets easier after you feel how healthy it is.

Never trust a fiction author. They spend countless hours making you believe in a world they created. They are among the best, most dedicated liars in the world.

Anger makes us lash out at others, destroying relationships and revealing our true nature. The history of the human race is largely the history of its anger.

Probably though, by the time I was 17, I already knew that I was probably going to go into film

It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier.

I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.

Art doesn't sell itself, it has to be sold.

Strict law is often great injustice.

Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.

Being from Orange County is in a lot ways very much like being from the Midwest.

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.