Patience is born to all cats. They just don't care to deploy it where others are concerned.

What I know definitively about life at this age … is absolutely nothing.

It will never be all that I want it to be…But it is always twice what I expected.

I hope that I’m a good man ... it would be enough.

Sometimes, insatiable curiosity and compassion are all that life requires of us.

I hope that I am a good man … it would be enough.

If you doubt your sanity, is that proof?

The sun was directly overhead, bright against the flower’s exterior. Warm blueish-purple silhouettes pirouetted and danced along interior walls.

Are you willing to nourish your heart with love

I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. (His 19-year-old daughter.) I cannot possibly do both.

The air is like being wanted, we say, and they nod approvingly. The air is like getting older, they say, and they touch our arms gently.

What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.

I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

Every single time when you act in a film, and there's a different director, which of course as actors we're used to experiencing that's what we do, it's a different experience.

Consciously join with and become part of the power that is in everything around you.

Where does the dentist go when he leaves the room?

SECRET is not a mystery, it is analization.