I always wanted to travel around and see lots of America, I'd never been to Boston, I'd never been to San Francisco even, so I'm quite excited to just go the places.

People said, ‘You must be mad, or on drugs,’ which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time that people sooner assume you’re on drugs or mad, rather than free.

No means yes in grasshopper language.

Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

It's impossible to be unhappy while wearing a poncho!

All my friends got dogs and cats for Christmas, and I got a starfish called Roy. I used to take him down to the park on a lead.

When I'm 70 I might be a man in a park just wandering around, speaking in tongues with kids throwing bread at me.

Never try and go on a solo mission on your own.

I've had a really weird day, some joker threw bamboo in the penguin enclosure. They all vaulted out. It was a nightmare, it took me all morning to get them back in.

I don't really like jokes in a way. I mean gags are fine but I like weird moments where what you have isn't really a joke, just tiny moments.

I've got it all in here ultra violets, flying saucers, strawberry bootlace come on get involved.

God's will has to be done, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.

God performs wonders beyond description.

I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.

Today Christians... stand at the head of Germany... We want to fill our culture again with the Christian Spirit.

The epitome of the human realm is to be stuck in a huge traffic jam of discursive thought.

So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.

When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.

As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.

Language is by its very nature a communal thing.

Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.