Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.

It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.

Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment.

The Cinderella story is wired for weirdness, and you can see it in this movie.

Yeast is to flour as action is to ambition. Rising to success requires adding and alternating starters.

Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation.

I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.

When we meet with better fare than was expected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the unscrupulous. When we meet with worse than was expected, philosophers alone know how to make it better.

Some visualize the Pistols era in shades of black and white. It wasn't. Actually, the colors I envision are neon or army dirt green with fluorescent pink--anything that would annoy."

You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.

Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.

He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.

There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.