I wish I could blame my failure on my integrity & refusal to play bullshit games. But the truth is I just play them really badly.

Mark Twain had it backwards. Nowadays everybody is doing something about the weather, but nobody is talking about it.

We are 25 years too late. If the object is to avoid dangerous change, we've already had it. The object now is to avoid really dangerous change.

The fact that the Antarctica is beginning to look more like it's part of the story, as well.

Even hating myself I still think I'm better than you.

There is a strength of conviction that can only come from being 100% wrong.

Scientists are stuck in this belief that we tell people probabilities, not absolute answers.

You express yourself through written words. You’re a writer.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.

I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.

My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape?

Thirty years of spiritual practice has given me the realization that emotions are based on our perceptions, whether or not they are based on reality.

When I was working with Stanley Kubrick [on "Eyes Wide Shut"], he would always say, "You never tell the audience what to feel. Let them choose to have their responses."

Accepting God’s acceptance of me doesn’t mean I’m going to stop trying. It means I’m going to stop trying out. And I am intentionally redirecting my obsession.

At all costs, avoid clothes that are too big. The more volume your clothes have, the more volume you appear to have.

It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.