Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

That is the worst thing about despair: it is not constant, any more than love is.

Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.

You’re allowed to manipulate the environment, but not the character.

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.

We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.

You can tell a story clearly in the storyboards, but if you don't keep the correct focus in the animation, it can be ruined.

I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned

The longer we lived with it the more we wanted something less about process and more about life.