"I have always stayed out of politics, I don't believe it would be appropriate to talk about it."

“I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.”

“Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising.”

“The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.”

“A 0-0 is like a Sunday without sun.”

“The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.”

Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.140, Octagon Press Ltd

“I've been awkward forever. I have really low expectations for myself. When I do perform to some sort of social standard, I leave feeling really comfortable. I'm either so awkward that I look retarded or I'm so awkward that everyone else feels retarded.”

Source : Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. October 3, 2013.

“There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.”

Source : "The Subject of an Arbus" by Jessie Wender, www.newyorker.com. April 8, 2014.

“Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?”

Source : Lillian Hellman (1976). “Scoundrel time”