A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

Every hero is scared. That-s what being brave is about - confronting fear.

After all, a man's life, when all is said and done, should serve some greater purpose than that of a hero in a cautionary tale.

Finding understanding of the human condition is what rehabilitates and transforms the human race

What has life given me? The beginning is fire, the end is a heap of ashes, and between the end and the beginning lies all the pain in the world.

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.

For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm.

Rescuing dogs is looked upon as a noble, trendy pursuit. But wouldn't rescuing a man from a homeless shelter be, in fact, more humane?

When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.

I don’t have any doubt in my mind that there will come a time when we will see violence against animal rights abusers.