Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

But even then I knew how it was going to be, I could feel the coming silence in the long, poisonous pauses that expanded as the night progressed.

Downtown, a dress for Meg- I do it every time I kill a man.

Future generations will know there's nothing mystical about wetware because by 2100, Moore's law will have given us tiny quantum computers powerful enough to upload a human soul.

When in doubt, wear what you want to wear. Not what you think the dress code is.

Making films is - or should be - a very personal experience. You shouldn't listen to anybody, other than the people you choose to listen to.

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so.

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.

winter is past, and we have a prospect of spring that is superior to spring itself.