When I was a child, I pestered my elders for stories.

I wanted stories, and I wanted them always, and I wanted the experience that only fiction could give me: I wanted to be inside them.

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people's lives better.

Movies began as a communal experience. Even though we now watch them as DVD's, sometimes alone on our computers, mostly in the history of cinema it has been a communal experience.

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

Everyone could use instructions on every aspect of cooking: pantry, storage, refrigeration, cooking, what to buy. Everyone that I come into contact with could use help.

Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

The secret to perseverance is a simple one: have a bigger commitment to getting the job done than to attempting to control your inner feelings and sensations.

The revolts themselves open up something very new. One has to be aware, or listen, or open one's mind to what are the new beginnings.

In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.