You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses.

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

One's palate is reborn every morning!

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

Before you fall asleep everyday, say something positive to yourself.

One can lie, but truth is more interesting.

An only child is never twelve.

I am not a born writer, but I was born a writer.

As for death, one gets used to it, even if it is only other people is death you get used to.

I hate that you went through hell for years and that you suffered. But without your past, you and I wouldn’t have a future.

To a certain extent what I do is play with the world, but it's disciplined play.

If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought.

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

To simply sit here and know the tenderness of being alive means being drenched in love.

There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.

If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar.

Fear exists until the moment when the unavoidable happens, after that we must waste none of our energy on it.

It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.