When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

Intelligence is overrated. Wisdom is under applied.

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

When I made my student film, a feature, nobody wanted to talk to me and I was, like, in the desert for 12 years.

Because our agriculture is so spread out, that makes it vulnerable. Our food gets transported a number of times and very widely.

A book is a machine to think with.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

Technology has limitations on what it can accomplish. You do not.

I try to have no absolute nos. I love french fries, I like a good burger, and I like pie. And that's okay.

Don't just play your way around the course. Think your way around way around the course.

I play the radio and moon about...and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.