Being famous is a bit dangerous sometimes.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

I find it hard to settle into a normal, routine environment.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

I love horror because you can never just sit back in your seat. You always have to be on the edge of it.

Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.

We notice in others only those things that relate to ourselves. For example, you could find someone hilarious and brilliant, and I could find the same person idiotic and annoying. It's the same person...

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

People only hate what they see in themselves.

People ask what the advantages are of wearing a mask, and the first thing, of course, is the mystery - people don't know exactly what Kane is thinking.

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

If you could bottle that special feeling you sometimes get in a dressing room just before a match, you'd be a billionaire.

I became interested in structure when I was in graduate school. How is it that the brain perceives structure in a sometimes disorganized and chaotic world? How and why do we categorize things? Why can...

I'm a massive pessimist.

Emotion works against you. The less emotion, the more you use your brain and fight smart.

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we...

These 'lone wolves,' people like to call them, you've got to look at them not like a lone wolf but an individual operator who's been convinced in their head, brainwashed, whatever, that this is the...

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

Contempt is the only asymmetrical expression in the muscular facial system: Disgust, fear, happiness, surprise, and anger typically express themselves symmetrically. Contempt is marked by one lip...

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.