In the library I discovered that you could learn by following your nose. And I learned that a book was as close to a living thing as you could get without being one.

Stories are at the very heart of being human; they talk about where we're from, where we are, and where we're going. They're like bread; you need to hear and tell them everyday.

We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

Art is a product of the intuitive—the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most accurate sense we have.

Stuff comes and stuff goes and the only thing that matters in the end is who you are inside, what you do and what make it leaves in the world.

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

If you can't think of an enlightened person positively, don't think of them at all.

You might be a redneck if you're still scalping tickets after the concert is over.

If you create a new party... to try to deny the communist party leadership, then not be allowed to exist.

We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.

When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska.

I'd like to be a song and dance man.