Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks. The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world. Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use. I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles. Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee. Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day. Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect. The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over. Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends. There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them. It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world. You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say. They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government. People with no humor, they're outta my life. If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it. What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College. A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma. Yes, but I think the big thing for everyone is to wear what they want and what suits them. I play as I feel. The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the guitar. Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him. I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie. So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album. The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.