I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

In victory even the cowardly like to boast while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.

He's watching me watching you watching him watching me watching him watching.

'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.

I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.

Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

I think doing something that's different, that's out of your comfort zone is important.

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.