If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.

Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential.

Just when you think you're playing your cards right, God shuffles the deck.

The lessons we learn, we must learn again and again.

Hitting your head against a wall is not the fastest way to move it.

John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.

I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.

The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.

We are all riding on the same bus.

Tell me something I can dance to.

I think you’re just as emotionally unavailable as I am. I avoid men because I’m afraid I’ll lose my heart, and you go from girl to girl to keep from giving yours away.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That’s just not my style... I cook from the soul.

I'm going to eventually shoot my own special, because you have to own your own content. My Turn (2003), that's never been released on DVD.

What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that.

You are so much better than a STUPID piece of metal.

I grew up kissing books and bread.

We love bringing verisimilitude to audiences, hopefully having experiences you'll never have.

You are under-qualified for the job of God.

There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.