Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools.

The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.

If you don’t like a language, you can go write your own.

There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.

There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people who think the only reason to read a book is to write a book.

I didn't want to go to sleep knowing I would just wake up in the morning.

Here was a man who'd learned to write before he could think, a man who threw out logical fallacies like tacks behind a getaway car, and he always always always got away.

A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.

Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.

Learn from your experience shooting your film, and then move on to the next.

And you can always, always, give kindness

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.

I'm not really anti-gang - I was a gang member and so was my son. I'm pro-youth, pro-community, pro-family, pro-arts, and pro-peace.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.