It makes me sad that corporations and media and Hollywood conspire to make people feel terrible about their bodies from the second they wake up ,so I sort of try to subversively undercut that.

Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire.

Cats probably wouldn't need 9 lives if they wore tiny little helmets and didn't smoke cigarettes.

It's probably not love if you don't press your face to the toilet seat after they've used it to feel their warmth.

If you have an opinion on what other adults do consensually with other adults when they take their pants off, you're a weirdo.

I can't 'make' you love me. But I can fill my pantry with your favourite snacks and offer you a weekly stipend of $75.

I think your ambition for something changes as you go.

It's hard for me to get embarrassed, but the things that do embarrass me would be if anybody ever heard my wife and I talking in our robust, made-up language.

On stage, I'm me. I'm a husband, I'm a dad, I'm a guy, I'm a mess - but I am a cohesive thing that you recognize as one human entity saying these things that he generally believes.

It's a good idea to have a break, to let your mind rest and so you can start to cultivate ideas.

I no longer believe in freedom of speech.

Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.

I'm a demon. I do bad things. It's genetic.

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.

Let's stop feeling so guilty about global warming

While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]

Might does not make right, but right demands that those who hold to it should defend it with all their might.

At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.

I'm just a very tough person when I go on the court, and I really don't want to lose.

Don't you worry about a thing, my darling. You live your life.