People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit.

If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much.

It's fine to be insane as long as you keep it to yourself.

You're in my personal space, so get out of it.

People will do and think whatever it is they have to in order to survive.

My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad-I've never changed my mind about that.

You can never see a plant grow, but they do.

People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.

You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.

Things don't have to be sane when they're normal.

If people knew who the angels were, they would be very nice when they saw one and would still do their same evil garbage when they thought none were around. Knowing who they are defeats the purpose.

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

Betrayal. It's one of the worst feelings.

What I don't like is what it sometimes takes to win. Backstabbing. Manipulation. Out-and-out bribery once in a while, and not always the monetary kind.

I work out twice a day, once in the morning and once before bed. I'll start with half an hour of running and then some yoga to stretch everything out so everything is warm.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

A poem is like a painting.

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

Big budgets don't necessarily give you big films.

From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.

My first memory of loving music happened so early. We would always go to the beach in the summer and I would run from blanket to blanket, from family to family and just sing Lion King songs acapella.