In my house, a hot dog is a dog that's really hot.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

Check thyself before thy wreck thyself.

Daddy had a strict rule about firearms. Anything we killed we had to eat. No amount of barbecue sauce would make a hairy guy like you palatable.

Second rule of the bush. Never get too close to anything that has offspring.What's the first rule?Food runs. If you don't want to be food, don't run.

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

Give the people - confidence. Give the people - delight. Give the people - hope. Give the people - the best.

The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.

The technology is good and it's bad. You know what you're dealing with out there musically, but my head stops at this electronic stuff. I don't quite know what I'm dealing with out there yet.