If you haven't got eyes, you shouldn't have wings

Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.

It's like the panda, they say that's dying out. But what do they do? When you see them they're just sitting in the jungle eating.

It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.

Pigeons: They've got wings, but they walk a lot.

I've got loads of nieces and nephews.

[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.

Avocados, it's a food that ain't worth injuring yourself for. If it's a hassle to get into, leave it to the experts.

We've had the Iron Age, the Stone Age, this is the pissin' about age.

People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.

You know, when you're a producer, you're a bit of a lackey. You're just making cups of tea and making sure they've got newspaper, stuff like that.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.

Where does contagion end and art begin?

I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with a blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.

I feel completely alone - it's like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert.

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

The human soul develops up to the time of death.

I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep.

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.