Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

With all the god-awful suffering in this war, I suppose somebody ought to be enjoying it.

Some of the best stuff in all my movies has been improv.

The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.

Get out the rye bread and mustard grandma, cause it's GRAND SALAMI TIME!

I don't make decisions based on money.

I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.

I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.

Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.

I can focus on writing, or I can get lost in wonderfully fun but endless conversations and produce nothing new at all. I count on those people who enjoy my work to understand this.

When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.