You can kill that man but not his song, When it's sung the whole world round...

When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.

I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

She's terse. I can be terse. Once, in flight school, I was laconic.

Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

I got turned on to rock music almost by mistake when I was seven years old.

The Hulk is like a haiku; you've got to find just the right words. I think, and I hope, we did that with The Avengers.

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

The most likely site for error is in the most fundamental of our beliefs.

The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.

Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.