I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

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.

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.

I love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other people's shoes.

My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day.

For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.

It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.

Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.