To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives
Once you label me you negate me.
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
Jests that give pains are not jests.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
I'll always be poor in my mind.
When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.