It's not whether God plays dice; it's how God plays dice.

It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.

Make life an art rather than art from life.

You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.

Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!

Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!

The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

I’m not interested in teaching books by women.

Symphonies begin with one note

...there is a void in my guts which can only be filled by songs.

As he stared down at River's lips, swollen from his kisses, there was no question she would be his. The fire within her matched his.

I’m now ‘Doctor’ to the patients and I have to cover my ignorance by waving my arms and looking grave.

At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in towers when they misbehave. It is unseemly and betrays a sad lack of creativity.

Even the worst neighborhood of Heaven will be better than the best neighborhood of the fanciest town on Earth!

Mastery does not come from dabbling. We have to be prepared to pay the price. We need to have the sustained enthusiasm that motivates us to give our best.

Labor with the heart, when the heart is pure and true, is the noblest labor.

I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.

What strikes me about Toronto is that Toronto's great misfortune was to have too much money in the late 70s and early 80s, and consequently, it built in the style of those periods, which is hideous.