This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

I don't want to die without any scars.

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.

Regret is a lifestyle disease of equity investing.

Maybe talking like they do -- like every trivial conversation is the height of their youth -- is what being friends is. There's no way I would do that

Don't always use PAIN that you receive as an excuse to GIVE PAIN...

My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.

Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.

What's the point of trying to fix a world we're so briefly in?

My drug of choice is beer. It's not only socially accepted, you can't even watch a football game without having it shoved in your face a thousand times.

I think sexiness in most people - and this is going to sound superficial - is definitely something you don't plan.

You know, the songs that are self-conscious or jerky, they are that way, but the other ones aren't, so that's a good thing. Some of the songs are Beck-jokey, but the others, they have heart in them.

The media claimed to be non-partisan, centrist. It's not been that way for a lot of history.