To both my parents, the world is a battle for attention, a war to be heard.

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.

They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost.

[W]hat makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.

What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

You don't want to remake something that's just been made, as an actor.

Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on... mass murderers.

I would love to play the Femme Fatale or an action role like Trinity in the Matrix or something like that. You know, a part with a lot of costume changes.

Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

I've learned that, as much as you would like to, you can't trust everyone.

I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.

The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested.

It's all in the art. You get no credit for living.

Better than that orange crap you wear!