A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Past traumas are like old scars on tissue that never quite healed properly – they occasionally must be cut open, re-examined, and sutured anew.

Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing... to stay alive for them.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

Everything was chocolate ice cream and kisses and wind.

Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another.

I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.

While I live, every criminal must die.

We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.

Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.