The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large I contain multitudes).

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.

Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all

Joy could be as exhausting as grief.

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

The lessons I learned that were most important were the ones that hurt my feelings.

I do love the challenge of screenplays. They're so difficult, such an alien form. It makes them endlessly fascinating. Something I can't keep my fingers out of.