Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.

We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.

Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

It's what you do that makes your soul.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

I feel your body against mine, while our lips are intertwined.

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

There's a whole new set of rules, in this new world. If you don't abide by them, then you'll perish.

In life you have two choices. You can laugh or you can cry. You have to laugh, you have to.

And they would all smile at the beauty of destruction.

I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

One rarely does well what one rarely does.

Let me assure you that all of our pets, and animals of every kind will be with us for eternity on the Other Side.