When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn't walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body.

Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.

I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

The scariest people are usually the sweetest.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

'Hostel' is that's how I feel about what's going on in Iraq. There's people that just want money and people are being sacrificed for it.

I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.

Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.

I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it.

What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few.

If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible.

Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good.

You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born.

I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.

The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

Our children must never lose their zeal for building a better world.

Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?