"'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu."

“Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all.”

“The very fact that a man is thankful implies someone to be thankful to.”

“No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.”

Source : Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

“I'm aware that I'm very fringe, and it's nice that way.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“"I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light."”

“Between me and my wife, there's this joke where I'll be doing some fun interview, and I'll get off the phone and be like, "That guy was an idiot." A lot of times, interviews are like being asked a list of questions. Invariably, there will be this part where they think you're a writer for Letterman: "Just off the top of your head, tell me the 10 most influential bands on you." And you're actually asked to come up with a spontaneous list. It's like, "Dude, I'm not living in High Fidelity."”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.”

Source : Review of Altona, by Jean-Paul Sartre, in 1961. "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 97, 1967.

“Winter Wonderland is on my hand, it's kinda rocky”