Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.

When you count your blessings, count life twice.

Only in cartoons and fairy tales and greeting cards do endings have glitter

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

Man is such an amazing animal, and the possibilities are infinite for each person.

The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.

Never confuse activity with results.

Tears are okay [Morrie Schwartz]

Well, she was talking to me. That's enough to make anyone lose their temper. And I accused her of sleeping with my dad because he was the soundest evolutionary choice.

A woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.