Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be; the nature of our life alone has determined their forms.

I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.

We got a little rule back home: If it's brown, drink it down. If it's black, send it back.

I can only develop a stand-up show by being on stage. I can't write it. Whenever I see comedy written down, it very rarely makes me laugh.

Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.