Music-a country one can inhabit only in music.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

When you separate thought from life, you get philosophy.

Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.

The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

No explanation is ever as good as not having one.

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks.

I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.

I think there needs to be people that are doing something different in music. There's a need for that as much as there's a need for a scene.

If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value.

By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.