This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

What are you doing to serve your customers a little more every day?

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Berkshireis not as good as it was in terms of percentage compounding [going forward], but it's still a hell of a business.

It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know. An American author does not need to know a word of Arabic to write a book like the one I wrote.

Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?

I didn't know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that there have been a lot of things that I didn't know.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.

Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.

If a little voice in your head is telling you something is up, maybe you should listen.