Anger is the spirits telling you that you are alive.

Children see magic because they look for it.

He loved constantly, instantly, spontaneously, without thought or words. That's what he taught me. Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell. That was his gift.

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

If you think anyone is sane you just don’t know enough about them. The key — and this is very relevant in our case — is to find someone whose insanity dovetails with your own.

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.

Nobody's perfect... Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him.

I was seven before I realized that you could eat breakfast with your pants on.

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.

So hey, once Joshua heals your brother, you want to go do something, get some pomegranate juice, a falafel,or get married or something?

Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

I like curiosity. It's a mind game, not a necessity.

One of the greatest lessons we can learn in life is how to keep mute when the boiling ring of anger is dropped within us

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

This is what I am, and I am going to understand this.

I like to open new doors and blaze new trails through the jungle and all that whatnot. What keeps me goin all these years is changin it up.

I wondered if Olympus had gone to a commercial break, or if our ratings had been any good.

You will never find a truly happy self-centered person. They simply don't exist.