The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

The brave with all of their weaknesses are better than the cowardly with all of their strengths.

If we take care the Nature it will be our careful Mother.

The Bible is a fountain of life, an instruction on how God want you to live a life on earth.

Like hatred, guilt can’t be locked in the silence of forgetting, without taking part of your soul with it.

The future has an ancient heart.

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.

I'd love to write a country album with Adele.

We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

I think Amy Sherman-Palladino has a very specific voice; it's unlike anyone else on television.