I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.

he [Llewelyn Powys] has always in mind the great touchstone Death & consequently life is always judged as how far it fits us, or compensates us, for ultimately dying.

In life, as in art, talking vitiates doing.

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action.

I know you lost your way, but remember love is the only freeway of life.

The belonging you seek is not behind you. It is ahead.

Categories are gibberish to me. I understand - it helps people organize their thoughts. But you can't go too far with it.

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

For many of us, the road is a difficult one, but the path is always there for us to follow, no matter how many times we may fall.

People love real human chemistries and if you can put it on the screen you are going to get people's hearts; you're going to go straight to them. That's one of the secrets of life.

Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.

I do not kill with my gun; He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.

'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important.