what's life without a spice of stupidity

Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.

I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.

Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.

All the words I had prepared turned coward and fled my mind like conscripts deserting a battlefield.

Miscommunication is endless.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

The nearer the dawnthe darker the night.

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

This is not about what party you're part of. This is about right and wrong, ... the conscience of this nation.

If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it for the reptile from whom it has been fabricated.

It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

You begin to understand, as a filmmaker, that there are different ways of approaching things. Everything doesn't have to be quick cut, like MTV.