Death is too much to ask of the living.

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Being rude to someone loving all the time can make your loving behavior same as your rude one for that person. So you should not always be rude in small mistakes

Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.

People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.

I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.

I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren't dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.

I can promote until I am blue in the face, but ultimately nobody knows what makes a hit.

A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.