I think if you meet the right person in life and you fall in love, that is a miracle. My husband saw me on the subway. That is a miracle!

I can't sit around having coffee. I have all these appointments, and a lot of my friends sit around having coffee talking about the jobs they didn't get.

Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?

And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always.

I am such a bloody talented guy. I might go into painting or something like that.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

I don't identify with anyone historically, but there are several people in the future who I am a dead ringer for.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

You encourage people by seeing the good in them.

Sometimes, we need to be strangers to ourselves. Then the hidden light in our soul will illuminate what we need to see.

There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.

My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of evening close Is scattered on the ground - to die.

And... as long as they need me, it's easier to forget that I am alone.