Eventually you come to realize that most people aren't looking for a fight but for someone to surrender to.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.

I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.

I usually have a very clear idea of where I want a song to go, sometimes very specific notes, but I'm generally open to suggestions.

Art ... is as much a source of happiness for the beginner as for the master. One forgets everything in one's work.

Being afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman).

Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.

I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.

So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental.

Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.