It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.

Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.

Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

The first rule of marriage: solve the mystery, end the love.

And yet, I was scared of falling asleep, because the moment I fell asleep my wounds would heal and right then I didn’t want that to happen. Right then, I found a strange but real comfort in the pain.

No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.

So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?”“Pretty much.

The best way to think of the ageing process in relation to a human face is to imagine a map of an area of innocent land which slowly becomes a city with many long and winding routes.

The next day I had a hangover.I realised that if getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.

Humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We’re a late-night piss in the toilet, that’s all we are.

Be more concerned about your life's impact on the lives of others than your image.

The guaranteed cure for heartbreak: find pain that’s much, much worse.

The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party.

Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.

Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.

Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.

When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me.

The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.

The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.

Screw it, just do it!