Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information.

Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.

Black as night, sweet as sin.

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.

That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.

The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.

Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

Thoughts are wakeful dreams without the pictures.

Do you want to resolve a conflict successfully? Don't wait, start a conversation.

My existence is just an unfamiliar name and nothing else.

When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.

A natural action is accomplished in the briefest manner.

I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone.

The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share.

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.