Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.

You need not sit on the mountains to meditate, you can do it while having a cup of tea. If you are only focusing on tea and enjoying, you are in a state of bliss!

There is no such thing as bravery only degrees of fear.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

Whatever the mind does, the soul has perforce to suffer the consequences of it, because the soul and the mind are knotted together.

Playboy magazine is now doing a 'Women of Enron' pictorial spread. ... Apparently the only thing these women have left to shred is their dignity.

That's a question you'd have to present to people in the White House.

By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.

What's my dilemma here? Am I making entertainment or am I making art? What am I saying? At the end of the day, cinema is entertainment for millions of people, but for me it's expression.

If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would.