What good are friends if they cant do you any good?

Don't waste your time with people who will ultimately destroy you, but concentrate instead on those who will appreciate your responsibility to them, and, likewise, feel responsible to you.

I'm glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year.

Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity.

Be as a lion in the path. Be dangerous even in defeat.

The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails.

If you're going to be a sinner, be the best sinner on the block.

Hate your enemy with a whole heart, and if a man smite you on one cheek, SMASH him on the other!

Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!

Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.

There are many who would take my time. I shun them. There are some who share my time. I am entertained by them.

Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.

It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end.

One day is worth a thousand tomorrows.

[Out To Sea] began a relationship I had with [director] Martha Coolidge for a few years that was wonderful, and she certainly cast me in the best roles I've ever had in film.

Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.

I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

If I look at the people that I look up to, a lot of them don't come to the forefront until their early to mid-30s. I think the most exciting roles are definitely yet to come.

When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.

What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

A good indignation makes an excellent speech.