When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it.

Work diligently. Work hard. Focus. Perform as if you are at the Olympics. One day, unexpectedly, it will start paying off.

It's easier to take than to give. It's nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a lifetime.

Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is in, complex it out - forever.

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

If the legends fall silent, who will teach the children of our ways?

When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. Its just remarkable.

I myself have 12 hats and each one represents a different personality. Why just be yourself.

I can eat fifty eggs.

I took that bible and I went home and I held it up and I said God, I really don't know you and I don't know myself and I don't know life, but I believe the answers are in this book.

This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens

Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.