Without the ice, the earth will fall

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

Oh yeah? How about M'Lin the cursed?

It’s all about “Priorities” There's No Such Thing as "Busy

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

I never liked filming the ads, but they were so well received.

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler.

Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

There's a lot of crappy music that people like, you know, all over the world, and Norway is definitely not an exception.

I would not lose so great an honor As one man more methinks would share with me For the best hope I have.