We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange to you.

ZERO and Infinity both are very difficult to understand and explain but at the same time both are key assumption of Mathematics...

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

Whatever. Everyone mispronounces my name. And, like, David Bowie was big before I was born, right?

I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do.

Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.

But I'm alone on my throne All these riches

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

There’s always tomorrow, until there’s not.

I stood up to the liberal elite when they came to our state (Alabama) and tried to eliminate the death penalty, we won, they lost.