I get tired of myself pretty fast. So I can't imagine other people don't get tired of me.

You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.

I like playing weird, kind of shady people.

I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.

Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it.

I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

I get tired of myself pretty fast.

I'm not a big wine guy. And bars, I never go to bars anymore. It's such a drag, man.

You are stronger than you know.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

To be happy, the only thing you need is to have happy thoughts.

For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.

Ninety percent of the trouble in this world comes from guys who think they have something to prove.

I had some difficult times when I first moved to Los Angeles when people would tell me I was saying things wrong. I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different.

People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it's the only way you'll get anywhere.