Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

All I ever wanted to do was act.

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

I don't do that many appearances at conventions. I like to keep them special for me. And for the fans, I hope.

I quite like post-apocalyptic films, things like 'Mad Max' for instance, because they are so full on and there is something quite cleansing about the post-apocalyptic because you can see where we all think we're heading.

On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.

Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science Fiction allows people to think that there are possibilities beyond the gravity of our planet.

You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by the thought.

Life is a biography not a series of disconnected moments more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive pattern upon them.

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man s existence.

I don't know why people are so obsessed with finding out stuff before the movie comes out. It's so much more fun to just go. I mean, I don't do that. I don't go looking for stuff that I'm interested in, you know, to try and find out pictures and what the movie's about. It's so much more fun to be surprised.

Someday, somewhere, anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes.

There are still many challenges and questions that need to be addressed before optogenetics can be applied in humans for therapeutic uses.

The start-ups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

I don't kiss nobody's butt.

No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

The whole world is set up so that for places like Switzerland to exist, that are crime-free and with the best care for everybody, you have to have places like Sudan, or Jamaica. But really, there's enough to share, when you check it. It's not that complicated, really. It's probably less thinking and more feeling that's required.

I'm a humor writer, so I don't always present myself in the best light.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.

Look at another person while living; the soul is not visible, only the body which it animates. Therefore, merely because after death the soul is not visible is no demonstration that it does not still live.

Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.

My style is confrontational: when I see evil, I want to remove it right away.

I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.

I'm living my dream, and that's all you can ask for. At a certain point you have to ignore all the rest.

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.

Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can.

If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.

The worst thing you can think about when you're working is yourself.

Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages, period. The only recourse is to either expand the number of jobs or somehow lower the wage.

When I wrote 'Marvin Gaye,' my whole intention was to make a record that people would put on a record player... and just instantly make out with each other.