It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.

There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.

Hope is the assurance of positive expectations.

You are lost because you have not been being honest with yourself, and your life is largely unexamined and unexerted.

Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart.

America is never great. America is great in what it can be, which is the American dream.

There have been a couple of jobs I've done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink.

I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.

In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.

[the best advice about women] was from Robert Evans. The line was in his book, but he told me, "When it comes to a woman's mind, I know nothing."

It will be a dream come true if I can go there and lift it. (on the Champions League trophy)