I'm 51. So I'm just saying, 30 years from now you're going to have a different outlook. That's what a midlife crisis is.

The beautiful moment sits very close to the horrific one.

The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals.

Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment.

I don't dislike everything I do. Especially with a film, you don't have an easy relationship with it when it's done because it's been your life.

I like to have a project. I live to have something to waste my energy on, something to think about. To figure out like a puzzle.

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.

I'm drawn to people that have tasks to do.

I don't have to be making something to feel like life has value.

I'm looking at the window and can't understand why there are six hundred thousand SUVs here in this little town. No one can even move. Why doesn't everyone just get out and walk?

I'm not miserable, but I can't not be angry.

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.

There is no greater life, than to love God. And to love thy neighbor as thyself.

Prosperity is peace.

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

The seeds we sow today will grow to serve as shades for weary travellers tomorrow

I know of no better name than Anarchism.

The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed - socialism doesn't work.

Murderers very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids.

No veep character is as absurd as Donald Trump.

If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.