He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.

All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.

The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.

Of all the definitions of love that abound in our universe, a special favorite of mine is... “the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.”

If you want to be taken seriously, always check your fly.

As I write, invariably I encounter more questions and answer those as I go.

[Margaret Thatcher] was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.

Nature works in parallel ways.

What is there in being able to say that one has dominated the stream in an attitude of self-defense; in proving that one has had the experience of carrying a stick?

The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

Oh heavy change. The world deteriorates like a rotting apple, worms and a skin.

That's what I love. I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.