My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

Don’t you love it that Prince doesn’t use Twitter? Don’t you think he’s somewhere on a unicorn?

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

True friends stab you in the front.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Fiction is based on reality unless you’re a fairytale artist.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

To be awake is to be alive.

I don’t really have a gimmick or a ‚thing.‘ I’m one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.