Trees were made of vibrant green leaves sitting on the shoulders of shy green leaves too embarrassed to show themselves.

Nobody actually ever does this—escaping through a window.

The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea.

We speed through the streets past modern buildings and ancient architecture. Gazing through the taxi window Rome becomes a wet painting someone has wiped a hand across.

Hope distracts you from pain - it's pain with red lipstick on to seduce you.

The worst thing that can happen to us is that our wings melt and we fall into the sea.

Our entire neurobiology acts as a giant input-output system, that receives information from the outside world, processes that information and makes a person react accordingly.

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

Where darkness had once overshadowed many of us, the radiant light of Christ exposed the truth that not one of us is truly ever alone.

It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.

I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.

I would vote for you for President but I'm against big government.

If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City.

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

We need a break from Capitalism.

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof