Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

The examined life is no picnic.

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.

Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.

These demands of life are so universal that either we like it or not, we are going to come across them one way or another. The response we give determines what our lives become.

Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.

The world is a mess. The world is as angry as it gets.

Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill.

I like very dry humor. I dont like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are nonchalant. I like characters that are sort of monotone and based in dark comedy.

When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you.

I would rather be loved than have money and all that other stuff.

I've loved comics since I was a kid, collected them, I've always dreamed of being involved in comics.

House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.