The X-Games - I watch that; I'm not impressed. That's white dudes' desperation. They're running out of sports. They gotta find something that black dudes won't touch.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.

As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.

It wasn't Luther or Calvin that reformed the church. It was the Word of God that reformed the church.

You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.

Your heart doesn't think. Your heart is stupid. It doesn't consider the relativity of tragedy when it breaks.

I do not dye my hair blackso as to be young again and sin againbut because people dye their clothes black in mourning, so I have dyed my hair black, mourning for my old age.

I believe in the vows that I took with my wife. Through sickness, in health, for richer or poorer.

A new report shows that, in Virginia, gun violence has fallen as the sale of firearms has soared to a new record. In other news, a recent study shows that most criminals don't like getting shot at.

To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.

I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

The being which has absolute existence, which has never been and will never be without existence, is not in need of an agent.

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

If I could have one wish, it would be for people to look at one another with open hearts and minds. Most of all, to look at each other with compassion. No matter who they are.

Particularly with MFA students, who have so much invested - literally and figuratively - I feel like honest criticism is something they're owed. It's not going to be easier in the real world, surely.