What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

Nobody knows anybody. Not that well.

I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.

I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

I called Kevin Spacey one day about something else, but he didnt say to me calm down, like The New York Times said. Because I was not deranged.

It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

When we allow people to come into our environment, God gives us His environment

Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world tho' the cant of hypocrites may be the worst the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.

Whoever is not made glorified by taqwa can find no glory.

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

I just don't think I'm a very good singer.

The trees and plants show respect for each other by the way they live in harmony. This also applies to the animal kingdom.

I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.

The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

There is a world of practical religion in simply being considerate of others.