There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

The Thames was beautiful, dark, and swift beneath the billion yellow and white lights of the city…

When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.

If you look for endings you can always find one, but I truly felt as if I had used up the last of my youth, if youth is that finite stage of life when it all feels expeditionary, inexact.

You became the sonnet that was etched in my minds eye. Existing outside the dreams we shared in the presence of our eternal love.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?

We loved one another, man. I mean all those stories about the rift ... there was no question of a rift between Charlie Parker and me.

Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere.

Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

Technology has brought us to a point in which hundreds of millions if not billions of people have a voice, each voice can now be heard.

When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages.

Your life is a mirror. Life gives us not what we want. Life gives us who we are