I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

Have a dream. Fight to do a dream. Don't ask if it is possible to do something or if not possible. Try to do it!

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.

The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.

I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going. - Henry deTamble

I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

Not just chubby fat, I'm talkin' gordo

You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.

Why are people who are appalled at insider trading so quick to trade on inside information when it comes their way?

We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people

Just as I defend myself, therefore, From all unpleasant happenings however small, Likewise, I shall act for others' sake To guard and to protect them with compassion.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.