...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid.

Sweet and savory, it was the honey of our existence, DNA with the message: This is who I am.

I eat at In-N-Out Burger every chance I get.

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.

At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.

I'll always have a kid in me.

We need one another. There's no reason to judge. People are more fragile than you could possibly imagine.

I do not think that we have psychological and ethical and economic problems. We have human problems, with psychological, ethical and economical aspects, and as many others as you like.

My kid is a product of the fast computer lifestyle.

Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.