Anybody who wants to learn everything is pretty stupid. You learn what you can.

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It's the plug-in drug.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.

I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials.

All philosophy is a form of confession.

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.

It was that depressing time in the early morning where the only people about were milkmen, police officers- and time travellers.

Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.

Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

Violence is the fear to other's ideals.

Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.

They [FBI] had a lot of clippings, a lot of articles I'd written. And to me the - the funniest one was - I had done a piece for Playboy about J. Edgar Hoover.

Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.