I've always defined myself as a writer, I've never decided what it was I was gonna write. [...] I always fancied myself one, but I'm not. I'm so far from a writer.

If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.

I just want to do cool stuff.

Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

I have a wife and two daughters; people who depend on me. Everything is more important than it was when I was 20. But now I'm like, "Eh, I made it this far."

I want to manufacture a feud.

If anything, there's more at stake when you're older, and more responsibility and more legitimate things to worry about.

I get all of my comedy from CNN.

I don't like gadgets for their own sake. I like gadgets that are tools. And I like simple gadgets that do one thing really well like a hammer.

I have to stay true to myself.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.

The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.

When I go to the line I'm thinking 'All net.' When I don't think that, I'm likely to miss.

Life is short if you don't notice it'll pass you by, That's why my head is in the clouds trying to pass the sky.

Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.

I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately.

Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.

I can quote you lots of chapters in verse from the bible that are terrible for women. But you can use the bible to either liberate or subjugate women. And it's the same with the Koran.

...people have always known, at least since Moses denounced the Golden Calf, that images were dangerous, that they can captivate the onlooker and steal the soul.

The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.