Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.

The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.

Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.

Change often involves loss, so change can be a risky experience.

I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world.

Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.