I work very hard to achieve simplicity, which is never natural, never spontaneous. It's always obtained at the price of a great effort.

I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation.

When you see people on the street, they're living in their phones. They aren't living where they are - they haven't got the energy of the past. And so it's something that needs to be reestablished.

One of the biggest problems of our contemporary civilization is that there's been an interruption of transmission. People have no past in their present.

I don't like things to be overcharged, because otherwise everyone starts getting nervous. I try to be very well organized. When I write the script, everything is already in there, like the decoupage.

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

I let ya in—into my life...my death...my heart." He reached up like he was going to touch my face. "And now I don't know how to get ya out.

And yes, we do have some food. Maybe you'd like to join us? Unless you want to stick with your sheep sushi.

Just because you may not feel confident about doing something now does not mean you will not master it later with ease.

So close that your hand upon my chest is mine, so close that your eyes close with my sleep.

I love art, I collect mostly modern art.

There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

We are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

I'm not going to apologize for being successful.

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.