My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.

I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.

It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

If there’s a heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached.

Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.

Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

With you, I would walk anywhere

later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.

Water is sufficient...the spirit moves over water.

I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.

It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.

Every German child learns to speak English in school.

As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.

Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.

When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times.

I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.