The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art.

Have you noticed how just trying to impose any sort of chronology on events makes it seem as though a lot of time has been occupied?

I was simultaneously elated and depressed, a common enough state of mind these days when people are offered a great deal of money to do something repugnant.

I also wish I'd been born with a clearly defined talent for something, or else stupid.

Little deer, I've stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. / Your veins are thorns // and the good cells are lost in the deep dark woods / of your organs.

God called you because He needs you

a relationship without trust is like a car without gas..you can stay in it all you want, but it won't go anywhere...

Stories can start revolutions.

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...

I don't have spare time.

Don't find the fault, find the remedy

You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.

Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So I was ready for larger successes.

There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.