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All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made.

The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.

Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Leadership, leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!

There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.