the real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself

...What you are is a force--a force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream...You are life

when the need is in the mind, you cannot satisfy the need

Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones.

Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.

Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers.

God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them; then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did.

One of the most important things as a writing instructor is to provide a lot of different entry points to subjects. To not impose your own personal experience as the One True Way.

I really loved my dad. I was very, very close to my dad. He - you know, he was very, very nervous about my being an actor.

If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.

Who are taking to the witch burning Saturday night?

Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options

No amount of hatred can prevent an enemy from being right sometimes.