When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.

I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.

I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management.

I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.

I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

Everything's connected, and everything has meaning if you look for it.

There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life.

Listen, I've always been very headstrong.

Is there anything better than making a kid laugh?

I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one.

There was a sense of being taken on a journey by the grandmaster of the road trip. You feel this weird angel taking you somewhere. You don't know where, but you trust him.

Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain.

False belief is more emotional than true belief

When you are broken open you get to discover for the first time what is inside you.

We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high as or higher than we are.

For some, the very act of intelligence gathering seems illegitimate when applied to the crime of terrorism.

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

Well I'm an eight ball shooting, double-fisted drinking son of a gun

I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there.

I heard Amos yell, “For Brooklyn!” It was an odd battle cry.