I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well.

I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle.

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self.

If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.

There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.

The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.

Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

Everyone has a story.

No god will spare you forgiveness for loving me.

You know my children that humanity advances only by forming itself an ideal and endeavoring to realize it. Every passion has its ideal which is modified by that of the whole.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.

You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.

All you can do as an artist is just strive to make the best record you can and ride the rollercoaster as it goes up and down.

You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

Long may Louis de Broglie continue to inspire those who suspect that what is proved by impossibility proofs is lack of imagination.

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

I don't think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don't play.

We can find loopholes in a lot of things if we want to bend the rules of the church.