It was really a means-of-production problem. It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.

Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.

I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn’t now, then where did it go ?

There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.

But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then.

You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.

The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives.

When I start writing novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry, rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters.

The knowledge of “Where am I going?” sometimes depends on the faithfulness in little things

The writer… begins in confusion and nothingness and writes his way into clarity.

A dog's good for filling a grief-dug hole.""In the Shape of Shep

The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.

It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow

I loved the hood and still love the hood but I had to realize like Ra you a rapper now you're in the public eye.

I'm looking forward to seeing more of the US, and hopefully spending some of the summer in Europe playing festivals. It's early days though, so who knows.