Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'

The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.

I play a lot of games on my iPhone. There is a game called Rat on a Scooter that I will promote as much as possible because it has brought me so much joy.

The only wise God!

It is so easy to dream but so hard to forget them.

In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

Chieftains must understand that the spirit of the law is greater than its letter.

My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.

A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.

Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be goyish even if you are Jewish.

Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.

Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.