Plastic people flashing fake smiles at a pretend world.

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

God dances with the outcast.

Follow the evidence to where it leads, even if the conclusion is uncomfortable.

God can only be of service to me and I to him, not in the past, nor in the future, but only right now in this moment.

My point is that the social forces liberals like to point to are real - I absolutely agree - but, at the same time, a good grounding from a family can make a huge difference.

Violence can behave like a disease. That insight gives a different frame of reference that is designed to take the judgment out of it, to take the good-versus-bad-people view out of it.

I'm not someone who gives prescriptives at the end of my films.

When you get the coffee from the store, does it come in a great big metal can?'He beamed. 'Absolutely.'That was all I needed to hear. "Tea. A cup of tea.

Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?

Art gives those unexpressed parts of ourselves permission to be felt and spoken.

Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Science is a way of thinking that helps you not to fool yourself.

What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!

Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

The kind of hero worship you have, when a parent is lost early and you don't know all their faults and misgivings, is a very strong influence.

It's a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life.

Don't blame it on the sunshine. Don't blame it on the moonlight. Blame it on the boogie.