If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

Follow your own weird.

Consciousness is the glory of creation.

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

Don't think about waht other's think of you. Matter of fact don't think at all, just be you. Do what you feel. No one else matters.

I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.

Being this close to him was like sitting under a hotness heat lamp. In the desert. At high noon.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]

It’s amazing how life will organize around the standards you set for yourself.

I don't want ever to appear in a film that would embarrass a viewer. A man can take his wife, mother, and his daughter to one of my movies and never be ashamed or embarrassed for going.

Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.

Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption.

What has been cut apart cannot be glued back together. Abandon all hope of totality, future as well as past, you who enter the world of fluid modernity.