"Depression makes me hate the world, but it gives me a million things to think."

“Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.”

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

“Sometimes people fail to see that individual decisions have universal consequences.”

“How do we define, how do we describe, how do we explain and/or understand ourselves? What sort of creatures do we take ourselves to be? What are we? Who are we? Why are we? How do we come to be what or who we are or take ourselves to be? How do we give an account of ourselves? How do we account for ourselves, our actions, interactions, transactions (praxis), our biologic processes? Our specific human existence?”

“Do we have to know who's gay and who's straight? Can't we just love everybody and judge them by the car they drive?”

“It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it did for millions of people who have lived since, the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. It is a truth that, for twenty centuries, there have been untold numbers of men and women who, in untold numbers of ways, have been so grasped by the child who was born, so caught up in the message he taught and the life he lived, that they have found themselves profoundly changed by their relationship with him.”

“Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.”

“As Paradise (though of God's own Planting) was no longer Paradise than the Man was put into it, to dress it and to keep it, so nor will our Gardens remain long in their perfection unless they are also continually cultivated.”

Source : John Evelyn, William Upcott (1825). “Miscellaneous Writings”, p.430, London : H. Colburn

“I'm a perfectionist... So to me, if I had my way, a song is never perfect, never finished.”