I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.

Sleep, Maya, " he murmured softly. "Sleep, my love, and I promise that I will come looking for you.

I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.

The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.

Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.

Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

Ideas are the currency of the new economy.

Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.

A persons portrayal on TV isnt always how someone is.

Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.