To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that gives the whole piece of music greater shape, deeper harmony. It allows us to catch our breath.

In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

Hello Kitty will never speak.

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.

But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.

Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.

Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

I often think we're most happy when we forget the time.

A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.

Teach yourself. Help yourself. Improve yourself. Enrich yourself.

The simple act of caring is heroic.

The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.

Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud.

I'm playing to the sort of people who like the same records.

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

I don't need anything else. I get out of bed every morning and face the world because you're in it.

My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best.

If you're extremely rich, and you have got children, my theory was, you give them enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.