You need to adjust your compass to an obtainable goal.

When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.

In a world where we are so pragmatic and materialistic, fear is the only emotion that allows even a sophisticated person to believe in something beyond.

You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist.... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating.

I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things

Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.

You have to believe the magic to see it.

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.

Don’t just wish

Even a grain of sand united with an oyster can make a pearl.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Liberty is about the right to question everything.

War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.

A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example.

I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it.

The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

You only live once, so live a good life!

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.