Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

The exit is usually where the entrance was.

Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?

I'm so scared of dying without ever being really seen.

If you had all the time in the world but your knowledge, wisdom and understanding remained unchanged, your life would remain the same.

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

Friends are people you can talk to... without words when you have to.

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born.

I love James Baldwin essays, but also his novels. I recently read "Another Country." I couldn't believe how ahead of his time he was.

All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.