The things that matter most in life....Aren't things.

Just do what makes you happy....sounds simple, doesn't it ?

The higher the hair, the closer to heaven.

I've never really been into the sci-fi genre myself.

Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.

God cannot remember forgiven sins.

Because of the spin-meisters and the focus groups and the way politics is run now. It's run by polls and focus groups. So it's even more true today, I think, than it was some 40 years ago.

The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.

It's more of a strength model to say that [Vladimir] Putin will do what it takes to defend his country. But that's why Putin is dangerous and Russia is a major cause of concern for us .

The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.

We're very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we've learned.

Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.

Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.

Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement.