Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

Individuals are told to reduce our "carbon footprint, " and we should. But how many years of riding a bike to work would it take me to offset one F-15 flying for an hour?

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

I was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about money, because most people don't understand the part of money in running a band.

There's no such thing as a good or bad culture, it's either a strong or weak culture. And a good culture for somebody else may not be a good culture for you.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.

Oh, the naive Obama State Department. They say we can't kill our way out of war. Really? Tell that to the Nazis. Oh wait, you can't. They're dead. We killed 'em.

Whether or not you're aware of it or not, you're taking the information you get from watching TV and putting it in your brain.