I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper.

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart.

In my free time, I love to lay in bed.

We've got a lot to gain and nothing to lose.

The stories we love may not always fit neatly into a single time line, but they will always matter.

I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; it’s as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre

My name will live forever, but I should not care about this at all, because I am not my name and my name is not me!

To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.

Jesus is just a word I use to swear with.

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.