You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant there was in restaurant food and how much home was in homemade.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.

Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.

You don't get to be the president of anything if you have bad manners.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

I wouldn't say we were doing that. I think we probably stopped thinking. Though it took a while to stop thinking.

When we think of Leonardo da Vinci, the last thing that comes to mind is the nationality of the artist. The great masters belong to the world.

If I see a spider in my house, I put it in a cup, and then I take it outside. I save it. What is wrong with me?

Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.

To sense which gifts to accept which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.

If I was to direct Ron Howard, I guarantee you, I would put him through a living hell every day. I would demand so much of him. We wouldn't quit until he leaves the set crying. Weeping! Spent!