I can tell from the glint in her eyes that she’s at least an acquaintance of Dorothy.

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home

My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.

In this space, in this moment, we are who we want to be. I am lucky, because for me that doesn’t take much courage. But for others, it takes a world of bravery to make it to the clearing.

We are young and the night is young. We are in the middle of somewhere and we are feeling everything.

O Lord, as I walk through the valley of the shadow of doubt, at least let mewear a Walkman...

He kisses me back with a kiss like a smile.

The promise of a kiss will carry us forward.

I once told him that the best way to break up a fight is to step between the two people and start singing ancient folk songs. But I’d never heard of anyone actually doing such a thing.

If you’re not going to feel how are you going to know what to think? Isn’t it in the nature of feeling to evolve thought?

It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.

You'll have many, many friends, but if your relationship with your mate is one hundred per cent of your heart, you'll never need a friend.

Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator?

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways - the ways we react and behave when we love someone.

Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!

The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them.

You have to believe that it is what you want to do with your life and you have to be dedicated to it.

Heal the world! Stop the hate. Lend a helping hand to those in need.