A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Jesus Christ is my greatest companion.

What do we do know?(Peeta)I guess we try to forget...(Katniss)I don't want to forget.(Peeta)

I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

You know I like that fight and I'm confident of walking away with two super-middleweight titles

In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.

Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.

I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine.