Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.

There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.

Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.

Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.

Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.

Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.

I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution

Don't blame me. That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.

Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind to yourself.

Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but lose you.

Begin with “I remember.” Write lots of small memories. If you fall into one large memory, write that. Just keep going. Don’t be concerned if the memory happened five seconds ago or five years ago.

There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.

And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.

First, forgive. Second, forget by choosing not to dwell on that which is forgiven and in the past. We have no right to keep in front of us what God has put behind Him.

A grandparent will accept your calls from anywhere, collect.

Well, Fellini... there is always Fellini.

If we leave the European Union, yes there will be bumps in the road, inevitably, but we will be in a better position to deal with them.

Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.

The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.