I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.

It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows, but deciding what is right is much trickier.

For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty.Now I am pretty lonely.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here, " as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

Praying leads to the prosperity of the soul

One word can turn into a book just as one poem should never be overlooked.

The cakes and pies and casseroles beckoned like gastronomic sirens, and there was no one to lash me to the mast.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.

I think education has a bigger impact on the lives of people than absolutely anything else.

You have to leave room in life to dream.

You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it's too late.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

Only in the human form is it possible for life to attain its final goal, which is to realize the all-pervading and infinite Divinity.

I think film is a director's medium and the good filmmakers that I like tell the darker stories. Therefore, I'm always inclined to follow people like David Cronenberg.