“The thing is, even if you’re playing sort of a heightened character and playing inside sort of a heightened reality, you can still apply your own truths to those characters.”

The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that’s new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.

One of the greatest pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten in my life was from my mom.

Me, I’m dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it’s the honest ones you have to watch out for.

Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.

One of the greatest pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten in my life was from my mom.

Me, I’m dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it’s the honest ones you have to watch out for.

Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.

I’m having too much fun today to worry about tomorrow.

Now, bring me that horizon.

Throughout my lifetime I’ve left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there’s almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

Escapism is survival to me.

Sometimes I feel like I’m possessed with a multitude of demons.

I am eternally grateful.

I’m not sure I’m adult yet.

One of the most beautiful things in the world is seeing a mommy with her kids. There’s nothing more beautiful, nothing more sublime.

Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.

How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?

How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

In Germany, an effort one thousandth the scale of the American was applied to the problem of producing atomic energy that would drive engines.

If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you’d say, “Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,” but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn’t apply to anybody that has a child.

Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.

Basically what’s happening is I’m pleading guilty to possessing and having plants and not guilty to the charges of supply.