You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

It's all these young country bucks doing Skynyrd songs, which is pretty cool to us.

If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely you will develop heart disease.

The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the world.

My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire.

The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.