Survival is not important. What matters is how you survive.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Success is a collection of problems solved.

My schedule can be hectic, so I'm always trying to find time to see my friends and family.

It's humiliating to have to explain your value.

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.

Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.

Our deepest need is to be seen.

I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.

I had older brothers who would pick on me, and injustice always boiled my blood.

Good Friday was the worst Friday until Sunday.