Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.

We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.

People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!

Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.

Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

My vibration is always in the sublime sunshine of life!

In a world of limitations, only a fool would hesitate to touch the infinite.

Ocean is ocean.

People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.

I think a lot of people settle with comfort. I've kinda pushed my whole life not to do that. There's nothing wrong with settling, it's definitely an easier life than the one I've chosen to live.

Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell And I feel like I'm comin' home.

What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.

My life in the past 20 years has changed. I don't count days anymore, I count the hours, the minutes, the seconds.

I've never done anything for the common consensus. I do things to please me. If you are happy with something yourself, you become bulletproof.

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.