If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all wrapped up in one.

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.

Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

Make Your wish Your Dream and Your Dream Your Goal

Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world hunger.

I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.

My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing.

I always felt like I sucked at everything, that I could never find the thing that I liked. I auditioned and I probably sucked, but I had decided 100 percent that this is what I wanted to do.

French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.

I'm very good at living out of a suitcase. I love dressing up every morning. It feels like a costume, in some ways.

The important thing is to pull yourself up by your own hair to turn yourself inside out and see the whole world with fresh eyes.

Most traditional Scottish food is designed to use things that are just about to go...off.

Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.