The only true immortality is when you don't care if you die. The moment you stop giving credence to gain is when you become invulnerable to pain.

When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.

In a world where we are so pragmatic and materialistic, fear is the only emotion that allows even a sophisticated person to believe in something beyond.

You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist.... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating.

I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things

Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.

You have to believe the magic to see it.

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.

Self respect and reality is tough rival when it comes to balance it honestly.

...it's easy to express romantic love - harder to manage daily love - to forgive failings close to feelings - to divide self from soul...

Twinkle tiny star.Oh, how great you truly are!God's sign from afar.

All you have is a gift a to give.

I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge.

Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible.

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

There are things that have to be done and you do them and you don't talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget them.

Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

I love key lime pie, although it's never made the proper way.