There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

Tell me about the love you've lost. Maybe my story won't seem so horrifying.

If there were ever such a thing as a unique opinion, history would probably be less inclined to repeat itself.

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.

Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down.

We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend upon material success . . . but on Jesus alone.

I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.

I'd be really interested in making a dramatic, low-key 3D film.

Everyone can walk and talk. Your job is to create magic.

Things go away and projects crumble and disappear, or you make your movie and it comes out and no one watches it.

It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.