You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.

From the time I could read, I found solace in my father's library...At the ages of ten and eleven and twelve I would have preferred to remain in the library...

Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?

Impressionism it is the birth of Light in painting.

I believe this choice is ethical, and what makes it ethical is it is a choice.

The power of a smile goes a long way. My mom taught me that.

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

I always think coming out is something that you do for people who really deserve it. It should be.

Actors are as good as they allow themselves to be, and to portray life, you have to have as broad an experience of it as you possibly can, so everything's worth it.

Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.

Everyone always says that having kids is messy and sloppy. It's true, but you as a parent have to try to bring some boundaries and control over that experience, or you'd have out-of-control kids.