Our dream is parallel to the realitySlumber's one platform for perpendicularityBut it always went contrary to the plan takenWaking us from sleep to sleep back again

There's no such things as sweet as dreamWell maybe if you live on itBut you could live such a sweet lifeIf you'd just realized how alive your dreams beat

When dreaming is better than reality we're livingWhat's the sense of waking up in a nightmare?

That’s writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn’t turn up.

Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.

If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation.

After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.

We're wild horses. We're going to eat your food, knock down your tent and poop on your shoes. We're protected by federal law, just like Richard Nixon.

I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.

I used to go to the supermarket dressed as Peter Pan when I was about five years old.

Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you

I wouldnt mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.