It all comes down to this: when you recognise your loneliness in another person, when you see desperation so familiar to yours written across someone else, you can’t just let them leave.

This is just the way life is – sometimes cruel, sometimes beautiful, all the time confusing and frightening and exhilarating – and we just have to deal with it. That’swhat freedom is.

It is not what you know that determines the quality of your life

I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.

It's Friday morning mankind!Good vibe, Don't Frown and let the monster see you smile!

Most of screenplay writing is deciding which voices you want to listen to and take on board.

I really learn from something that really inspires me and it becomes something that I remember.

They say "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." In the Marine Corps, you can make that horse wish to hell he had.

The first principle of self-love is that you are not for sale.

Im sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb.

The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.