When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.

It's been such a group effort. When you're a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that's great.

Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.

I have a habit of recording records very quickly - and not in a haphazardly way, not in a way where I'm not focused on details, because I'm a freak when it comes to that.

I had a very modest upbringing.

I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.

But I've consistently worked for 10 years.

Life started getting good when I started making money.

The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward

The inquisitive nature of youth should carry over into our adult lives. Challenging the status quo and enticing curiosity should be a daily practice of adult life.

After all, I thought, what were days and weeks in the presence of eternity?

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.

I don't walk away from things that I think are unfinished.

I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She's incredibly dedicated to public service, she is smart as a whip, and she's effective.

To come across a Master and to miss the Master is the greatest accident, very unfortunate, that can happen to a man.

The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night.