The chance to do it over again is called now.

If better were within, better would come out.

I'll follow you, even to death—but I won't live with you any more.

Carmen will always be free.

Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing that its wings will work. That jump can only be made with rock solid feet.

Each day, the goal is to receive knowledge and remove ignorance. This reveals what we all search for. Wisdom.

It's not what you learn, it's the way you learn it.

I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.

Why study things of no use? To learn you don't need it and concentrate your efforts on what is important to you.

A tree is no more valuable than a seed. Both are simply at a different stage in their development.

There's a reason why golfers walk forward to their next shot. It's to move on.

Don't let the evil actions of broken people define your view of our world! Don’t be terrorized into a diluted, hopeless reality.

Strangely enough, I really think that shoes are a communication tool between people.

For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story.

I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

Empirical research has shown that quality tends to be the consequence of quantity when it comes to creativity... Those who produce more masterworks also produce more rubbish.

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.

For me, playing a vampire isn't about the fact that they're a vampire, it's about who they are specifically.

I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.