If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.

The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody, ' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody.

Had laws not been we never had been blam'd For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.

There was something about that form of comedy that's just difficult. It never really felt like you could just fully commit to all the colors that you carry with you.

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

Seems those with money who don't worry about money have big walls.

Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.

I think, for me anyway, music and film is where you can really transport yourself to another universe.

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.