"The Big Lebowski" is a real masterpiece, as far as I'm concerned. I suppose I'm a bit biased because I'm in it.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

Your true character in life is your destiny.

Much of the joy in falling in love with fictional characters comes from being able to envision new stories from them.

The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.

... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.

We've had to overcome a lot in America to become a nation of progress. We still have a lot of progress to be made.

I learned early on that there are all sorts of stories I have no place telling.

Warming of the climate system is unequivocal...most of the global average warming over the past 50 years is very likely due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases increases.

Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.

I don't just sit down and write all day, or the songs would be weird or stupid. They would be about different stupid thoughts that I go through.

Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband!