I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...

I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite memory only to find someone already there, admiring the view ahead of you.

I was in '78 recently, " he announced. "I brought you this."He handed me a single by the Beatles. I didn't recognize the title."Didn't they split in '70?""Not always. How are things?

I wonder Why we make huge revolutions and then the result is zero of hopes, freedom or even to find the food !

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

I usually get my lyrics when I let my mind wander, when you're not really awake, but not yet fully asleep. I keep an open notebook by my bed and then just write whatever comes to me.

I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

You are dharma. You are a wheel. And the wheel of dharma spins.

Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

The most time I spent home in 2009 was about a month.

If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.