The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.

You can talk to someone relatively famous, and they say, 'What do you do? What do you do for a job?' and I say, 'I make documentaries for the BBC, ' and you see their eyes just glaze over.

When it was time to meet a chimpanzee, I got very, very anxious because they have the strength of ten men, so I hear.

Not counting the brand of Sunni Islam practised by the so-called Islamic State, there is probably no religion in the world that comes in for more flak than Scientology.

There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry.

It's in the DNA of Scientology that they don't trust journalists.

I feel like, if there's an elephant in the room, I'd really like to start off by introducing the elephant in the room. And sometimes it's funny.

Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.

[T]here is something to recommend a story that ends.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

Lyrics always fall short with the amount of energy thrown into the playing. Lyrics to some extent are just the product of a singer's insecurity with singing.

The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.

Direct your energy toward achieving a goal, and tackle the problems with an emphasis on edging closer to a successful result.

Hesitation will get you killed.

The sun was bobbing on the horizon, just peeking over. Its light shimmered on the sand behind you, making your body look like it was glowing … like it had a kind of aura.

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.