Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.

Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.

Marriage is one of the most difficult things in the world and unfortunately sometimes they fail.

I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

Where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves—a place that we may have willed ourselves to forget, but that the heart remembers forever.

If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.

I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes.

The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.

I'm interested in what the virtues of all those things are, especially for the kind of person who's made their own world that revolves around them, like writers do. It seems especially precious.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact.

You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a healthy lifestyle during the day.