Everything in this world is the fruit of the imagination. If there is no imaginary garden in our head, we can't plant a real one.

Feeling free is a choice that is ours for the making, ours for the taking at any time, at any age.

Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it.

Useless to tell myself that a dreamand the memory of yesterday are the same thing

It was almost romantic, in a mad-inventor sort of way.

My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions.

What I adore is the juxtaposition of high tech and low tech. It's sort of like I love the sacred and the profane. I love to put these extremes in the same hopper.

If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.

Ideas are interesting to me, and religions are a place where ideas have been very subtly embodied for thousands of years. All literature started as sacred literature.

He was like some wild, untamed creature that you could keep and feed for a time, but in the end you knew you'd have to let it go for its own sake as well as yours.