At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

Whenever I'm around people it causes me to feel nostalgic for the loneliness that drove me into their presence in the first place.

If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.

There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle.

I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.

Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

Live every day like it is your last and learn everyday like you will live forever

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.

I think it's therapeutic when we play. It's just like therapy.

I don't need any more money.