If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.

When they think about Africa, they think about War, Poverty, Hunger and Diseases.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.

So I stepped away, reminding myself that when you're a spy, sometimes all you can do is go on. One foot in front of the other, wherever the narrow path might lead.

To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense.

Yeah, a memory's never finished, if you really think about it.