This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along.

What we can't speak, we say in silence.

The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose.

You got to go along to get along.

There's a whole lot of evil in the world looks pretty on the outside.

[He] had a hole in his soul, the kind the devil loves to find. It's like an open doorway for him, lets him enter in and do his wicked work.

You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.

Sometimes it's necessary to do wrong. Sometimes it's the only way to make things right.

What unimaginable luxury, never to wrestle with whether or why, never to lie awake nights wondering what if

That's what it is to love someone: to give whatever you can while taking what you must.

I figure if there is a God, She's good and surged right now about the state of things down here.

The more you express your skills, the more experienced you become and the closer you get to excellence.

It takes all of this technology to come up here and understand the simplicity of things. From here, it’s really difficult to understand borders, wars, and hate.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

You're not a bad person. But you sometimes do bad things. You know what that makes you? Human.

I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.

It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.