When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.

When one flower blooms spring awakens everywhere

The life and passion of a person leave an imprint on the ether of a place. Love does not remain within the heart, it flows out to build secret tabernacles in a landscape.

Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.

We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.

Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.

When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.

...the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time.

Friendship is a creative and subversive force. It claims that intimacy is the secret law of life and universe.

Beauty is the illumination of your soul.

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

Apparently I had lunch with Johnny Depp when I was three months old.

To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.

Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man.

I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

I love playing music no matter where it is.

Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.

We misjudge anybody who's different from us and the Jews diverge from our type, ethnically and religiously. That's their chief offense, but there are particular causes.

I think country has the biggest melodies ever.

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.