War is the greatest failure of mankind.

Men are separated by so many petty things.

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

Your belief system saturates the space around you.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

Everest is completely out of control. It's like crack.

Once you have some yes's in your life, the no's are not that bad.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

I never looked at a title and said, I want that.

If I had a child and she was a girl, I'd hope she'd do something different from me.

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

He was always sort of a scrappy little kid wasn't he? A bit of a fighter?

Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

More than an actor, I am a performer. I'm a great believer

People judged my work without to have listened to it.