Making sensible choices is short-term thinking

Don't waste yer' breath kid. Explainin' anything to that one? It's like tryin' ta' slap the dumb off a retard... -George Foster

The tree is known by his fruit.

I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.

The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.

My acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch.

Had I managed to fall into some sort of carnivorous plant? Yeah, bleed on the man-eating plant. Always a good plan.

I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.

The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

When you do a movie, it's like going on a journey. It's really like the director is the captain of the ship, and that energy, everybody feels.

I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon.