Ignorance binds people tighter than culture.

Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations.

Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.

Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons.

Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.

Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.

Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.

Everyone is born with a different mind and the same heart.

Truth is what reconciles thought and experience.

The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind.

A mind can be empty of thoughts but a heart cannot be void of feelings.

You show me a lazy prick who's lying in bed all day, watching TV, only occasionally getting up to piss, and I'll show you a guy who's not causing any trouble.

Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality.

A wise man does not eat his seed even in the time of hunger, he knows the value of his seed!

God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.

Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.

The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.

How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

I feel pretty passionate about what's happening to America.

Working on 'The Last Waltz' introduced me to Martin Scorsese, and I had been a movie bug since I was a young kid.