The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

I've become a much more serious young insect.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.

A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth.

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

True love is all about your love and not the one you love.

You think you must fit the role others have laid out for you. That is the lie you need to conquer.

I believe if somebody chooses plastic surgery it should be for themselves, not for anyone else.

No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

I want to play a real man in all my films, and I define manhood simply: men should be tough, fair, and courageous, never petty, never looking for a fight, but never backing down from one either.

My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we know would drown in blazing happiness.

I invite you to consider anew what you know and what you have; what you are here for and where you are going; and how you are going to do what you have come here to do. p 13