Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

A man travels fastest who travels alone.

The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple.

Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me?

... go down to the country, take a house, get interested in local politics, in local scandal, in village gossip. Take an inquisitive and violent interest in your neighbours.

The Universe, solitude, passion, and recognition won't ever let you hate your life. Try to be as close to them as possible.

I need this wild life, this freedom.

Why should their liberty than ours be more?

The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

Once you do a character in Hollywood and people haven't seen you before, they put you in a box and they think that's all that you can do and it's hard to get people to take a risk on you.

If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn't even cuss.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

I do play drums when I'm on tour.

When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.

In 1970, Los Angeles became the first place where the total acreage used for roads and parking exceeded the amount of space given over to habitation.