I would rather not make a film than make one where I don't have final cut.

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

Don't open up doors you won't have the strength later to close, be mindful of the acts you enable.

The death of the forest is the end of our life.

My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.

The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it

By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist.

A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation. ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science.

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from

I guess what happens to a lot of people as they get older is that they get more conservative, but with me, the opposite is the case.