Observing and understanding are two different things.

The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.

Whatever you choose for your stationery is your favorite color because it's where you pour your heart out.

I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.

Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.

What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.

I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.

I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.

I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.

There is something about her eyes. Eyes don't breathe. I know that much. But hers look breathless.

Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?

He (Winston Churchill) mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen. . . .

Having done several of them and also loving other kinds of movies, I'm also tougher on suspense stories in terms of finding one that really excites and surprises me.

Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead.

In the end, leaders are defined by the convictions they hold.

I'm a solitary sort, I get chaffed by too many elbows.

If you wish to get hold of the invisible you must penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible.

You really had to learn to protect yourself from all Gooks in Vietnam, or else you would end up dead.

Forgive yourself and forgive others around you.

My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.