Yes, we could solve for why, but we could also eat another slice of coconut cake.

I bought an energy bar, and as I ate it a great weariness came over me.

I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy.

I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine.

Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know.

This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them.

No emotion or insight is too small to inflict on the world. Let it all fly. Don't let it eat you from the inside.

The bullshit never ends. That’s the main thing to remember. It never ends.

Shudder, in fact, is not quite the word for the feeling. Feeling is not quite the word for the feeling. How's bathing at knifepoint in the phlegm of the dead? Is that a feeling?

Stuff me in a tutu and let's screen experimental videos all day.

Everything's weird if you stare at it.

Honor the freedom to celebrate Christmas, not alone - but, in the company of all those you love, too.

I’ve always felt sorry for Mike Collins, driving all the way to the moon but not allowed out of the car to look around.

Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the other of the mind.

Act now. Act with speed.

The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life.

I think good storytelling continues to teach you how it unfolds. And so I don't think that film and stage are mutually exclusive at all. It's just that you're always in a wide shot.

I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something.

Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years.