To hunger is to be alive and to hope.

All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming/growing/turning/floating/swimming deep, deep inside.

[it's about] being bitter but patient with your own bitterness so you could learn to be wise and be kind of returned to whatever innocence you might have once had before you became bitter.

There is a water soluble sugar that is in beans called oligosaccharides and they are indigestible by human beings. They ferment during the digestion process and hence you have gas.

I have no magic wand to control what other people think or do. I can control how I respond, and this is all that matters.

He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard.

Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings.

Painting to me is constant searching. I can see what I want, but I can't get there, and yet you have to be open enough that if it goes another way, then let it go that way.

It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.

Whenever people go out of their way to help other people - there's power and beauty in our diversity.

One day offices will be a thing of the past

There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living.

I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him.

The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.