When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on...

The best way to create emotional or spiritual distance between me and another person is for them to come up to me and go, 'yaassssss.'

Fighters display two things. They display confidence, or they display a look that says, 'I'm not sure.'

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

People are animals, man.

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.

When someone else is getting punished you show up, you eat some lunch, you sit back because you're not going to do anything. But when you're the one that has to go, that whole day is a very miserable...

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

If you have parents who can't show you love, a kid can grow up to look arrogant. Because they need to create a fake self. Or they think they're more powerful than they really are.

Someone like Shane Warne played the game on and off the field really well and got into guys' heads. Even though he couldn't bounce you and hurt you physically, he was verbally aggressive and would let...

I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone's watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

There are people in positions of power that are righteous about what they believe: they're enacting out evil principles, but they don't believe that that's what they're doing.

When people are crass or loudmouthed, it's not because they don't give a damn. It's from fear and insecurity.

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's...

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the...

Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.

We are incredibly poor predictors of our future.

A lot of potential scenarios create challenges. It's all about how you grew up, values instilled in you.

People hate jokes.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Like so many other bored teens, I was a bored teen with a hobby. The only difference was mine was obsessing about crime.

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

When my brain switches to fight mode and there is talk of opponents, then I change a little and become a little more aggressive and mouthy!

If you're getting abandonment, if you're getting abuse as a child, if you're getting uncertainty when you're a child, unfortunately you tend to look for that in your life later on, and you think...

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

There are a lot of negotiators that really will give in on a deal because being understood is more important than getting what they want. And there's a particular type in particular, the assertive...

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.