I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling.

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

cause down the shore everything's all right

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

In order to avoid shipwreck, wise people usually appoint one captain to navigate the ship.

You are a good leader when your actions inspire others to do good for themselves and for others.

There is no failure in God's will, and no success outside of God's will.

Talent matters. Systems matter. Strategies matter. We can't just bring nice people together and think we're going to solve the world's problems.

While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.

It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.

I hope to live long and be happy. But I'd like to be remembered as somebody who did good rather than mischief.

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

I think everyone's against abortion.

I worked at restaurants and coffee shops and babysitting and just whatever I could do to make money.