Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

Obviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented.

The desire for knowledge begins with searching and seeking.

You only have to view life in a positive way.

Music makes my soul happy.

A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so.

We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.

Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.

In the course of our eternal existence, we spend infinitely more time in the spirit world on the other side than we spend in the human world on earth.

If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.