The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature.

Bible: Various portions of it, when properly interpreted, contain a code of behaviour which many men consider best suited to the ultimate happiness of mankind.

There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man’s mastery over the environment. Not space travel, not the fifty colonized worlds that were now so haughtily independent, but the City.

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.

Love alone means nothing unless you have a tortured heart for it to soothe.

It doesn't matter who you sleep with, it's how you treat other people in this world.

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

I've been doing this sort of thing my entire life. It's my love, it's my passion, it's what I do day in and day out. I eat, sleep, and breathe music and singing.

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

The script is the coloring book that you’re given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

It doesn't matter much what kind of house you've got as long as it's a happy home.

If there are too many competitors, even if you're the best it's a lot harder to win.

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema, writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.