Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Think about the eternal consequence of your actions

It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.

What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts - not the facts themselves.

I like New Orleans music, I like Memphis music and I like the way that the sound like those places. I like how there are stars and there are people in those cities that are revered in the community.

How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.

It’s not about the amount of time you devote but rather what you devote to that time that counts.

Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.

Nothing has man invented yet that will do a better job than heels at making a good pair of legs look great, or great ones look fabulous.

Circumstances don't create character. They reveal character.