The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.

I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

I think storytelling is storytelling. It doesn't matter what format it's shot on.

Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.

True Leadership is the authority given by the trust of the followers to use power for the benefit of all.

I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.

I'm going to live my life. It's nobody else's decision, but mine. I think there are a lot worse things I could be doing with my life than what I choose to do.