The sea only drowns its lovers.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.

By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress.

Sometimes awful things have their own beauty.

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.

I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.

Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested.

We live in stirring times- tea-stirring times.

Poor Lucas, always trying to protect me from danger. He’d never guessed that I was the dangerous one.

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Don't start the day until you have it finished. Don't start the week until you have it finished. Don't start the month until you have it finished. Plan your day.

When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more like water color.

I totally wouldn't mind being able to wave my hand head to toe and have, like, a whole new outfit.

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

Everyone thinks, "Oh, it'd be easy to just go scout a game." It's not. Because you end up watching the game and not actually focusing [on scouting].

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

A character is 2D, and then after I come in it becomes a 3D; it becomes alive.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.