If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

Fall seven times. Get up eight.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it shor

I want to do everything with you

We are what we repeatedly do but we can be perceived by what we repeatedly say.

Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.

I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.

No matter what the characters you play, you have to find the differences in them, especially when you are doing a political movie.

One should rest with a peaceful and loving mind. Even wrathful emanating Buddhas manifest solely out of the wish to liberate beings.

Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

Much energy is wasted in trying to charm others. And in wanting to charm - I tell you, the opposite happens