I think more like Charlie Chaplin than like Jennifer Anniston.

It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.

I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.

It's a strange life... you really don't know how you will impact people or how things will play out.

Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to actually live take a lot of courage.

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out.

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.

Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought.

It's not my fault that people are perverts.

Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.

A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.

Who else speaks for the Family of Man? They are in tune and step with constellations of universal law.

All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it.

The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.

For too long our culture has said, "If it feels good, do it." Now America is embracing a new ethic and a new creed: "Let's roll".

Never underestimate the magnitude of the power of the forces that reinforce the status quo.

You can make a movie that's more focused on the jokes, but Young Adult was not that kind of movie.

Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.