For me, stories are like WD-40 for the brain: they keep all the wheels and gears and clicky-things running smoothly. Without them, cognitive function becomes a bore.

Learn, only to live. Live, only to learn.

If you don’t stand sincere by your wordshow sincere can the people be?Take great care over words, treasure them.1.17

He believed in people. He believed that if people could only be shown the right way-the way to health and order, a way to be free of unhappiness-they would make the right choice. They would obey.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

Patience is not a virtue!

I like to stay fit by being generally active.

The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

With dogs and people, it's love in big splashy colours. When you're involved with a cat, you're dealing in pastels.

Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.