Ian was too Captain America for my taste.

Spiritual battles have greater consequences than earthly wars.

You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.

We get a better book when everyone's allowed to do their best work on it. I don't want to prevent anybody from bringing their ideas to a project.

I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.

My main thing is constantly looking forward and trying to make music that I couldn't have made at any other time.

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

In the woods is perpetual youth.

A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks