Serve many fruitlessly, If one repay, Th' ingratitude of thousands 'twill outweigh.

His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel.

Even when our children are still young and defenseless, we feel intimations of their departure. We find ourselves staring at them with nostalgia, wistful for the person they're about to no longer be.

Mythology does not interest me. Nor does history. But the possible overlap between history and mythology excites me immensely.

There's not enough of me left over.

You don't need to drink if you have emotional problems.

I ride my horses three to four times a week.

Critics of art are like eunuchs in harem. They see how it's done when the men come to see the women, but they can't do it themselves.

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and therefore fallible; it makes our own shortcomings more tenable.

L.A.'s kind of, like, seven really cool towns. It's so laid-back. If you go in the right spot, you can walk around, and you don't need a car.

God is not a person but creativity, not a creator but creativity.