Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe.

The best mirror is an old friend.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.

You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

Note from Alien cookbook: “The more intelligent the human is, the better it tastes.

So many lights you’d think we were living in a constellation

I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.

I pursue this dream and carry on. I don't dwell too much on the outside, I just focus on the inside.

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

Certainly my films are cinematically unusual, and quite contemplative in their pacing compared to conventional films, but I think overall they are quite engaging, accessible, and even funny.

In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.