The way a good rod first flexes and then extends its muscles as the line quickens, tightens, rises off the water and does figure eights in mid-air is one of the miracles of humanly applied dynamics.

Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.

Walking is a way of being somewhere, rather than striving to arrive.

There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.

Either you like cats or you don't. Whole nations have been divided on what people thought of an animal that mates openly, walks in silence and keeps its own counsel.

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.

My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

I like friends as I like music - when I am in the mood.

In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow.

Everyone says social media is a unicorn, but maybe it’s just a horse?

As good as Miami is, we'd rather go to Miami.

It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.