They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but us sheep know, true beauty is not in the eye: it lives in the mind.

There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we don’t have all the time in the world, we have all the world, and not enough time.

Lies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious.

At the end of the world the sunset is like a child smashing a pack of crayons into God’s face.

All the best bits of a film happen when I'm looking down at my phone. Life, is similar.

Anything you want to do is possible; fear is not meant to prevent but to motivate your heart into the life you naturally think is improbable.

Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is, is being in a cage.

Some days I am the flower beneath the machine. And the machine rolls slowly on, blocking the sun, without a care for what it tramples beneath.

My eyes open after my mind. All eyes always do.

Nobody has to do anything wrong to end up living a life that feels like it’s not their own, all they have to do is take a step back, and hope for the best.

Sleep doesn't come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, over by the bin.

If you live with dogs, you'll never run out of things to write about.

She could hear the rattle of hooves on stone evolve into a thunder of pursuit.

I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.

Id like to acknowledge three people who early on knew Mel Brooks was one of the funniest people in the world: Sid Caesar, me, and Mel Brooks.

I believe in this country [the USA], I love this country, I believe in the idea of this country, and this country is an idea.

Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.

We now have power under the Dodd-Frank legislation to break up banks. And I've said I will use that power if they pose a systemic risk.

I think regionalism was a little easier before mass communication was made possible. This is not to say that regionalism doesn't exist anymore. I think it does.

Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.