Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body.

Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull.  Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain.

In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.

You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.

Poverty isn’t solved with donations.

Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.

He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.

I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you're home and dry.

I'd have to say that, in general, models take themselves too seriously. Basically, they are genetic freaks who spend a couple of hours in hair and makeup.

The stronger the imagination, the less imaginary the results.

We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate each other--but then--it isn't true. It isn't true, we don't care at all!