Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

You are the capital U in Unhelpful.

Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.

Every movie I've ever made has just kind of come together.

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill OReilly.

I had my exhibition of paintings first in Shanghai, and then recently in Wuhan. Wuhan particularly interested me, because I am 1/8 Chinese.

When you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness.

Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.