You can not make yourself whole again by brooding one hundred percent of the time on the darkness of the world. We are the light of the world.

You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.

Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it.

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

Justice for all children is the high ideal in a democracy.

I don't have Twitter or Facebook or MySpace or any of those things. I think there's a kind of risky thing privacy wise and I'm a private, guided person and don't want to get too open.

The Victorian world is extremely dark and extremely bright.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty-years-old, and I was causing trouble whenever I could.