You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore." I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.

When nobody practices what they strongly believe in, that day will be a triumph of prudence.

They're going to get the death penalty. They'll be strung up and made to be laughed at out in the streets and made examples of!

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.

The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions.

My whole mantra is, "Go big or go home." I don't want to just play a guy who dresses up. I want to play the person who threw down.

I've always been really drawn to that kind of sexual earthiness in European women, and Sophia Loren covered all the bases, including the whole mummy fantasy.