I like the rain. It washes memories off the sidewalk of life.

I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics.

Your self esteem is like a notch below Kafka's.

Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

Ukraine announced plans to open Chernobyl, their nuclear disaster site, to tourists. They say it's just like Disneyland, except the 6-foot mouse is real.

Intuition is knowingness, and this field of unbounded knowing, of knowingness, is within every human being. You start tapping into that and it becomes an ocean of solutions.

Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.

Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.

A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.

Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.

It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.