Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

You have neither the clout nor the experience to make a threat like that, Victor.

It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

I'm literally online all day long, and if I don't get back to everyone, I'll stay up all night.

Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?