So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

I'm not a breakfast eater.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

If you don’t vote, you don’t matter.

Poetry is the flower of life. It blooms to fill life with her fragrance of inner beauty.

A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them.

You always want to translate as much emotion as you can, even if it's broader with bigger emotions.

Blessed are thoseto whom Easter is not a hunt... but a find; not a greeting... but a proclamation; not an outward fashion... but inward grace; not a day... but an eternity.

How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford.

The Standard ... is the standard.

Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.

I don't want to sound callous. I mean, even if I have nothing to offer, that doesn't matter, because that still doesn't mean that what anybody else has to offer therefore has to be true.