I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla.

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.

This is what we do. Not so much argue as joust, in jest. We can't stop pushing and pulling the taffy of words and concepts.

Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.

Man created languages, but God created laughter. Humanity can always laugh together even if it can't always speak together.

Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to listen to them a lot, and try to put their voices into their character.

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

There were 15 terrorists, We killed 3 suspects, building collapsed on 5. All of them are dead.

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

Well, let's see. There's -- of course -- in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings.