Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.

Studios might support people trying to do something a little bit different and they'd be more open to the fact that there's more than one path to the waterfall.

I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.

I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government.

I think we all have a lot of different personas inside of ourselves. What happens in life is that most people get caught up in presenting one persona that they feel safest in.

It's well known that the greatest defence against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.

Relationships are a two way street. Not a highway and a bike path.

I'm not perfect, but who are we kidding? Neither are you. And you wanna know what? I dig it!

I found that if you have a goal, that you might not reach it. But if you don't have one, then you are never disappointed. And I gotta tell ya it feels phenomenal.

I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair.

Institutions have processes favoring efficiency over loss, and process over people.

Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience.

Sticking a straw up your butt won't get rid of the constipation.

No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.

Most of the time when we do a tune, Bad Blake, it's a tune no one's heard of to begin with.

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.

I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.

Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

You can still be strong and be feminine.