On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.

My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.

Most of my ideas just come out funny.

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.

It's never fun to read death threats.

I sort of fell out of new music. I'm old, I like what I like, and that's that.

Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.

There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.

Funny people don't really laugh very much.

Dads are awkward because they're older guys who aren't cool anymore and are figuring out who they are, and they often make bad choices in fashion and music.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.", Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]

The root of all fear is imagination.

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

In this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

I ran my fastest marathon in the rain.

I think we’re at the stage where we’re not musicians but not idols either. In a way, we also feel bad for being called idols

The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered by the Gospel is apprehended by faith.

Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.

I think once you start putting phony figures into financial statements, you get in a lot of trouble. And we've seen so much of that in the last 20 years.