I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

If you are not setting a trap, then you are probably walking into one. It is the mark of the master to do both at once.

All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That's the way we go through our lives. Everybody.

Too many people are living in a prison that they have themselves manufactured.

Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.

I played soccer for 12 years on three different teams at a time.

America is a country obsessed with appearance. It's a country obsessed with looks.

I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots

Any view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient.