...simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.

The only reason people lock their car doors when Obama walks by is they are afraid he'll tax them to death...

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

Just curious. Does the president of the United States have any advice for other teenage boys in America? Wounded warriors, for example . . .

It is okay to fall, but not okay to stay on the ground.

The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good.

Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.

I like to make blank pages darker. It's this thing I do.

Instinct's aware of reflex when mind ain't yet.

Could I please amend that suggestion? Could you not be there in the second darkest shadow one hour before midnight, to see who steps into the darkest shadow?

Some churches make intercessory prayer part of their weekly schedule. If that's not the case at your church, find another person in the faith to intercede with or go before God on your own.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't.

What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

My beautiful son... I can't wait to see his face, hug him, and spend time with him.

What has six balls and screws Texans? The Texas Lottery.