Genetically modified foods are really just better crops. They're more nutritious. They're more resistant to drought, pests, and that sort of thing.

There is no inherent virtue to instantaneity.

Inevitably, if we are to grow and change as adults, we must gradually learn to confront the challenges, paradoxes, problems and painful reality of an insecure world.

I think about all the people I wish could die instead of you.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

I'm clean, I've always been clean.

Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures.

We are not really separate beings of light. That's a dream we are having, the dream of multiplicity. Meditation takes us beyond the moment to eternal awareness.

My hope for the planet is my children and grandchildren.

Power is the ability to afford not to learn.

Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term.

The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films.