I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard.

Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity.

That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and formulas.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken.

We will see how the issue will turn out when they come to Baghdad.

The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.

The day we were born, we were all God's children.

My whole life has been a bit like a Nintendo game.

I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.