Google is my rapid response research assistant. It's the Swiss Army knife of information retrieval.

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Look for people around you and serve them with love and compassion

You have to fix something when it first appears.

If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.

It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.

Under our thatch, friend, place shall abide for you, touch but the latch, friend, the door will swing wide for you!

Yeah I'm in that Tonka color of Willy Wonka!

In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.

Derek Jarman shared the responsibility for making the film. He didn't necessarily know what he wanted - he knew what he didn't want - but you had to keep coming up with stuff.