I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.

The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted.

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm aging so well.

You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.

There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?

What makes divorce happen is that you can't be in the same space any more, for whatever reason - but the love stays. And that's the killer. That's where the vehemence and anger and rage comes from.

Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself

You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously.

My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.

Do your best every day. Live each day as if it's your masterpiece.

The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

We pick up the lost bits and pieces, from the grass where we left them, and bring them with us into a future that will be made up of so much more as well.

It's impossible to consistently behave in a manner inconsistent with how we see ourselves. We can do very few things in a positive way if we feel negative about ourselves.