"The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself."

“Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.”

“The thing about the movie 'Navy SEALs' is that it was just such a waste. The script could've been shaped to be much better, and you just hate to see all that talent and passion go to waste.”

Source : "Michael Biehn on The Victim, William Friedkin, and his favorite antagonist role". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. October 2, 2012.

“I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.”

Source : Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.

“When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.”

“It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.”

“I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.”

“Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!”

“Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.”