The best model of a cat is another cat..., specially the same cat.

The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance.

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.

My mother use to say she would rather be dead than not eat the foods she liked. At eighty-six she met with death but she enjoyed every breath

I said to God you are lucky, you can create exalted mother, God replied you are luckier than me because you have mother

I tend to say faith is believing in life, and as I love life, I try to do the best with it, make it as serene and joyous as possible.

I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.

The zipper opened all the way down our spines.

The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure of the work, and everything else is a matter for the critics.

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films

I don't really want to be doing high budget, where they've got cranes and everything. That just sounds boring, having to do the same thing over and over again.

So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.