High school popularity is so fickle.

I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.

Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.

Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

Who's going to rob us? A crackhead crab? A jellyfish junkie?

Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?

I've never lost my capacity to be shocked.

Indecision is the key to flexibility.

Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.

Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology. Snappy dresser, though.

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

Americans make money by playing 'money games,' namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth ... instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.

It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

I would like to pick Rihanna's brain. I love her style and what she does.

That's what I love about film scoring. Every situation is new. Every show is a new adventure.

I think that certainly my choices empower me.

He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.

I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.

I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.

The late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood.