I have no wisdom and nothing useful to tell you - I only mentioned this because it came into my head.

There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them anymore.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

Words have a life; without response they die.

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?.

The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

In the world of the Machiguenga, sadness could be equated with anger, and anger was a perilous emotion, by which a foreigner could lose his life.

How do you like your blue-eyed boy Mr Death?

Upon descending our threaded words on the web by a steep and hazardous precipice of readers requires constant review.

I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.

I would love to re-visit Darla. I miss her. I really do.

When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.

Every actor wants to know in different ways. Some like to know everything. Some don't want to know anything. I think I land somewhere in the middle.

21st Century choice: Look after our planet and it will look after us, or don't and face the consequences

One of my theories about life is that we become what we believe.

My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way.