Seeing pictures of other places around the world makes me feel more important. Reminds me, even though life is short, there's so much to do.

Being in a wheelchair has made everyday things difficult. Things you wouldn't imagine. Like the looks I get at high school basketball games when they tell everyone to stand for the National Anthem.

A lot of people will ignore positive words when they are down and accept negative words. Those people never get better.

Sometimes when I'm writing, I wonder if the words have a mind of their own, and if they're really just using me as a puppet to manifest themselves.

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I wonder if it really counts as being alone, since I am covered in millions of other living organisms.

One time, I went to a restaurant and I asked the waiter for some food for thought. He left, came back, and tried shoving a sirloin in my ear.

When a fire rises, don't be quick to worry. Find the purpose of the fire, if it's negative, water it down, if positive, feed the flames.

I knew a kid who stuck a knife in the toaster on a few occasions. He learned it hurt. He grew up to be a great electrician.

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.

It's not a revolution if nobody loses

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.

I absolutely made the decision that that cannot be the reason why I'm doing a film or a job. For me, it's always about the script and whether I'm doing something that I've never done before.

We want to have peace in the region, but peace will not be achieved before the removal of the occupation.

All I'm saying is that you should show some respect for what other people see with their eyes and feel with their fingers, even though it be the exact opposite.

I do know what my first meal in the next world would be Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.

The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.