When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin.

The only reason people lock their car doors when Obama walks by is they are afraid he'll tax them to death...

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

...simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.

Just curious. Does the president of the United States have any advice for other teenage boys in America? Wounded warriors, for example . . .

It is okay to fall, but not okay to stay on the ground.

The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

The best decisions are often those made from the creative part of your mind and not the emotional part of your heart.

I don't understand, Jem. I don't understand why you'd leave me. Why would you that?

I learned through apprenticeship. I was an assistant to a defensive coach, and I'm still learning.

(The movie) is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, 'No, you can't do it.' You can.

Teaching writing is a hustle.

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.

The idea that women don't smell fine on our own is a problem.

I'm really going to do my homework. I'm going to be down there on the practice tee finding out if a guy's wife beat him up the night before, important stuff like that. Stuff that people want to know.