I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls.

It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with all the secret stories of the earth.

His teachings, said his disciple Musaeus, had one simple theme: 'Everything comes into being from the One and is resolved into the One again.

No one knows who they are more than someone who changes their identity (before I became a farmer, I was a leadership coach).

Don't sweat the small stuff.

On Tuesday December seventh a lot of good things happened: they took the trach out, took the cast off my leg, and my PT, Maria, had me standing.

And involuntarily I compared the childish sarcasm, the religious sarcasm of Voltaire with the irresistible irony of the German philosopher whose influence is henceforth ineffaceable.

Ask anybody, would you want an ex-madman living next door? It’s difficult enough being an ex-convict. It’s double hard for us ‘madmen’. Please believe it.

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

There comes a time when you have to trust your own judgment, when you must close your eyes and let your instinct rule you.

Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people. But they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.

I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following.

When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.