I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.

When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.

I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.

'So what happens next?' 'Everybody dies, and the people who don't get married.' 'Like any other story, then.'

Our mistakes won't irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.

Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.

When youre touring and the minute you tell someone that youre from Jersey its the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail.

Because it's me playing the character, trying to find a way to make it believable and entertaining and interesting.

Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.