Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.

Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

One thing I'm interested in is what shapes us: the people? The place where we live? It's both of those and more. That's what I keep coming back to.

White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill; its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime.

They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.

Reality has always had too many heads.

You always have God's undivided attention.

The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good

Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

If the length of your life is much shorter than the story of your life, this means that you have lived your life so fully!

Treasures and armies do not make a king. A true king is a king within himself.

Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.