Have some fun while you wait for the will of heaven.

There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

Life is absolutely, mysteriously beautiful.

Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.

God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?

Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.

I was wounded by a blow of love.

Let us give Nature a chance

Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind - because if you can't trust your family to love you and protect you, who can you really trust?

Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.

I enjoy doing independent films more, only because there's more freedom. There's not as many cooks tampering with what you are trying to do.

There's nothing harder to stop than somebody who wants to believe a miracle.

Since I do seven different styles of martial arts, I don't foresee myself fighting the same in any two movies. I think every fighting style should fit the character that's doing the fighting.

Insofar as Zionism sought to solve the Jewish question, it must be reckoned not just a failure but a catastrophe: Israel is the main cause of anti-Semitism in the world today.

They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.

Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare.

I love doing theater. That's where my home is.