At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Freedom is from within.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

A lie never lives to be old.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.