The man stood alone by the hive. On impulse he put his palm against the wood, as if feeling for a pulse.

Awestruck, Flora stared at the dishevelled sisters with their blazing faces and radiant ragged wings, who smelled of no kin but the wild high air.

The green began to seethe.

717! You are behaving like a demented bluebottle - stop that!

Don't chase after your thoughts as a shadow follows its object. Don't run after your thoughts. Find joy and peace in this very moment .

I have never gone out to mingle with the world without losing something of myself.

I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.

I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers.

You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.

As a spectator, I have very eclectic taste, whether it's comedies or action or very small, intimate films. And I feel as a filmmaker I should be able to have that same eclectic taste.

It was my mother who gave me my voice. She did this, I know now, by clearing a space where my words could fall, grow, then find their way to others.

The woman who died night after night and her dying was a long goodbye, a train that never left.

It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.