People think being depressed is just being tired and lazy. It isn't. It's more like being dead when you're still breathing.

People don't always need a name.

Well, what's reality, then? Is it what I think or what other people think?

Your reality is not my reality.

Every single day should be crazy fun.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

To me, everything in the world comes down to two categories: "about-ness" and "is-ness". "About" represents or describes something, while "Is" is the thing itself.

Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.

If you decide to live a pure life, don't expect the world to understand your decision.

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone, you'll never walk alone.

Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

I'm having an amazing time teaching through the lives of people much like Jesus did.

When I got home from The Ozzfest in September 2000 with Methods... I just locked myself in my house and I started writing.