In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

When people are not passionate about their goals, everything is more of a struggle.

If you want peace in your life, you have to stop declaring war.

I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.

The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct.

Drugs are delusive; they do not adjust anything.

What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.

If you grow up fat, you have to try harder.

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

If we're not enjoying what we've got...and even if we do get 'more,' we won't enjoy that, either.

Don't take life too seriously and have fun. Don't waste your time on things that your ego will try and convince you are important.