The wind came in languid gusts like whispered reminders.

I used to care about how I looked. Now I don’t care as much. Maybe it’s because I’m so handsome.

Sometimes I get a little sad, and I feel like being alone. Then I talk to my cat about it, and he reminds me I’m James Franco. Then we dance.

All I know is that when I needed McDonald’s, McDonald’s was there for me.

Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.

You are successful if you are able to work on the kind of material that you want to - if your life conforms to your dreams, regardless of outside acceptance or acclaim.

The selfie is the new way to look someone right in the eye and say, 'Hello, this is me.'

If this is the only life, then why I’m not just doing everything I want to do.

I am very grateful for my life. I think one of the keys to not being depressed is to find gratitude and to be grateful for what you have. So I am grateful for what I have.

You want to be interesting? Be interested.

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

Billy squinted at me. "Why are you letting them go?""Because they're real.""How do you know?""The one I was holding crapped on my hand.

...You won't get eternal life by just feeling the presence of God in flowers or music.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.

Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of the masters.

The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business--all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry).

In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.

It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement.

Bob Dylan led me to this kind of music - and it's his and ours. And it's nobody else's.

Life on earth means: the sprouting of wings.