I always pick what I consider to be good scripts.

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.

I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.

We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy.

I've got a hectic schedule, but I wouldn't have my life any other way.

I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

I don't need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don't work that way.

I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!

The term 'geek' for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don't care if people think it's not cool. You think it's cool and that's your thing.

I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person.

Are they even capable of love?

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once when I was number one on the bestseller list I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.

Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along.

There's only one racing strategy that matters.It's the one I run by: Get in the lead and don't let anyone pass you.

Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.

But of course in my world nothing is political. And everything's about policy and governance. And maybe a bit of politics.

Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness.