I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine, and when I call him, I answer. It's pretty strange.

Art is my cure to all this madness, sadness and loss of belonging in the world & through it I'll walk myself home.

It begs for a gospel of perseverance through inevitable failure... There is no antidote to the chaos of creative markets. Only the brute doggedness to endure it.

Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75.

We can never give up the belief that good guys always win. And that we are the good guys.

I've been an amature inventor for a long time.

People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time.

Concealment is the foe of tranquility.

If God called us to a task, He will then qualify us for the job.

By far the hardest decision I've had to manage [was about my health]. Because I had 51 years of doing it wrong.

Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.