Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

I guess god simply wants me to meet many wrong people before I meet the right one.

In every guilty man, there is an element of innocence. This is what makes any absolute condemnation revolting. We do not think enough about pain" Albert Camus

Patriotism without criticism has no head; criticism without patriotism has no heart.

I would lie, because no one would know me anyway. My grandmother convinced me to be proud of what I do.

I never saw myself as a comedian. I saw myself as a guy who can act funny.

Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do.

Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.

It hurts to see anybody in pain, if you've got any kind of heart.

No fountain so small but that Heaven may be imaged in its bosom.