People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

I don't know. I don't understand how boys think. If I knew that I'd be a millionare.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Will you stop drinking whiskey? Let me plead with you to do so. And if the sisters would not think it oppressive, I would ask them to not drink quite so much strong tea.

It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.

I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.

The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.

An Osage tribal study found that between $41 million to $50 million left a 50-mile radius around their own casino

Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.

I'm on my time with everyone.

With the responsibility of being a professional athlete, I believe that it is on us to go out there and help people.