I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

The question of purpose and meaning becomes obsolete when you think beyond human life.

The important thing is somehow to begin.

Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.

How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws.

Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story.

It's really not a question of how long you have on this earth; it's about what you do with it.

Indeed, without emotion it seems unlikely we can even have morality.

Many attempt to harvest what was never planted.

Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.

We're all in this together is a far better philosophy than you're on your own.