Memories? Pheh. Those just get in the way of living.

Even if it's meaningless . . . sometimes, nice things happen.

Fire . . . Does that light by itself?

Better watch her. She burns other people's books.

What's going to happen to us?

War is when people kill one another, right? Why would they do that?

You deserve to be the person you were meant to be.

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

Theodore you have the mind but you have not the body, and without the help of the body the mind cannot go as far as it should. I am giving you the tools, but it is up to you to make your body.

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

I take positives out of negatives all the time.

Wayne's done way more for my career than Jay-Z. Wayne is the reason I'm here.

The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.

Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes a certain (albeit seedy) sense.

I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.