One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

Mercury poisoning sounds like a rich man's disease . . . like something you might get from the leather seats in your Lamborghini.

If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.

If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.

Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge.

God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.

Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her heart may know What secret makes them so. Love, only Love.

I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn.

When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short.

People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.

People are grateful when you make a difference in their lives. That is the essence of any successful business

Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.