The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

I don't understand what the nature of God is. But I do have the feeling that I'm at some feet, and lucky to be there.

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.

You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them.

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.

In two years, I'll be making more than Michael Schumacher.

It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there?

I think one of my favorite productions ever was Sondheims Assassins at the Roundabout in 2004. Beyond brilliant.

It's a dream of mine. I worked very, very hard for many years. But the reality is, it's slow coming ... I think we're still a generation away from that.