She can't have understood you: you are so utterly different from ordinary men. That's what I liked about you when I first saw you

We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic, " not blind.

Words never fade away but echo on for eternity. Let your echo ring sweet.

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.

I am a dead man alive.

We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.

Yeah when you're in the middle of filming this movie [Bad Santa 2] it doesn't matter what you say you can think of some sort of way to twist it into something dirty so we were laughing a lot.

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

I was just trying to make a nice little movie... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable.

With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.