Failure's a natural part of life.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.

The spiritual force overcomes all other forces.

Isn't it sad that some people waste their lives emulating those who don't even know who they are or what they are here on earth to do?

Unique individuals with unique ideas are the ones who are going to shift the world to a new enlightenment.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”-Walt Disney

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

We all got dreams and we all star reaching

No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.