A day without the sun is like you know, night

Let me tell you, if you have never seen an agitated squirrel you have seen very little, nor have you heard much, because the sound of an angry squirrel is not to be forgotten.

Hallowed be thy name, oh Lord -- and shotgun do your stuff

Don't try to skin your rabbit and keep it as a pet too.

I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated, very fine people working there.

I think I have broken into the mainstream, and I think that may happen in a broader way, but I want to do it on my own terms, not become a standard producer.

The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.

They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat lying in your yard you ought to bury it. That’s my motto.

Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much.

It was the kind of talk that made me want to break off a limb and take to whacking her and that bunch of hypocrites across the back of the head.

There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.

I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.

Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying

Success itself doesn't give you happiness. It's what you do with your success that gives you happiness.

Poor fish of Rodondo! in your victimized confidence, you are of the number of those who inconsiderately trust, while they do not understand, human nature.

Music is a mantra that soothes the soul...something our body has to have. It's important to understand the power of music.

I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositions.

Grace and mercy are never deserved.

Make preparations in advance ... you never have trouble if you are prepared for it.

No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

Together, people with good hearts and fine minds can move the world.