True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

From the end spring new beginnings.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

In wine, there's truth.

The terror is trapped inside of him and paralyzes him. He closes his eyes again and tries to drown out the scream - but it keeps ringing and ringing and ringing in his ears.

What's a punk band? Hey, who's got a beer?

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.

Quite a lot of the girls I get photographed with are just friends and then, according to the papers, I have, like, 7,000 girlfriends.

Grace can and does have a history.

In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.

Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can. -Isabel Culpeper

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.