There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.

I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.

I’d thought there’d be no winter in the desert, but winter arrived anyway—silently, suddenly.

It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.

It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.

The Higher Self is whispering to you softly in the silence between your thoughts.

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun.

How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.

God means just what He says and He will do all that He has promised.

I'm interested in designing not the object but the process that leads to the object.

Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.