The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

You have to let your light shine.

When you’re being celebrated and flying high, don’t allow fanatics (fans) to elevate you so far out that you forget whose sky it is.

When you see a married couple coming down the street the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one who's mad.

What's the point of washing off your ball when teeing off on a water hole?

We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

Eliminate the cause of a mistake. Don't just clean it up.

There are very few interviews I turn down, because I really dig talking to people and hanging out.

Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?