Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.

Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.

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

non c’è peggiore infedeltà che essere fedeli a un morto

Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.

Perhaps you have visited my grave and flowers left, but did you hear me cry out to you!

I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'

I feel like women are frequently seen as guests in the comedy world.

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.

The media have substituted themselves for the older world.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.