One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

Have a dream. Fight to do a dream. Don't ask if it is possible to do something or if not possible. Try to do it!

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.

Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.

There’s calm in the mind of the humble. An unmistakable peace of not having to prove anything to anyone.

Every second you think meaningless, makes your minutes less productive and take you hours behind

A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

I admire people who do things that are interesting to them, who don't have a strategy or a master plan or have a brand - I don't care about any of those things.

I realized that I was writing about folks with lots of skills, especially fix-it skills and survival skills, who were nonetheless not doing well in the new-millennium America.

The only kind of love that helps anyone grow is unconditional love.

People are always going to, you know, find something wrong with people who are not the exact same as them. That's just what it is. Black, white, short, tall, religions, whatever. People are bad.

Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

It's a matter of each of the two churches being very deeply enculturated in its own setting and having difficulty understand the other.