I'm not officially a collector, but I have a strange attraction and a weakness for keys and coins. Old keys and interesting coins.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.

I remember one guy saying, "You're the only human out of all of them," and feeling a little concerned that somehow that meant I wasn't as funny.

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

I don't really know why I'm such an emotional person, that's just how I was born. It's a problem. It's not easy to be married to me.

Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness

It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.

Most inner-oriented artists share a common characteristic, a certain quality of obsession.

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

The Vietnamese... wanted to assassinate me because they knew without me they could easily swallow up Cambodia.

I wanted to design a chair which looked like a shrub pruned to look like a chair.