Life is mysterious as well as vulgar.

Every hundred feet the world changes

The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.

When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

Nothing is ever behind us.

Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.

We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it's our only hope.

Surely you can see the failings of the system. Inequality, injustice, unfairness, and exploitation--

Blessed be he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.

The greater the faith, the greater the result.

When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.

Disco was like the celebration of music through dance and my God! When you heard the music sometimes it was like, if you don't get up and dance, you aren't human!

The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.

Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

Nothing will destroy creativity thought faster than judging the value of the idea on the spot.