The moment of cocoa-drinking was always the moment of confidences.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other.

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.

There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.

Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger.

The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.

The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.

Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.

The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.

The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.

The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.

Initially, less appealing to me than the idea of a vampire that is drawn by some misgiving or drawn by some sense of longing that he can't quite satiate.

Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind.

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

I let go of my need to control and allow the Universe to do her thing.

Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.

The most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character.

Part of acting is always just being available emotionally and open to people.

Awaiting to see the other side of the Coin, whatever it is, Accept it, because you Deserve it