Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.

A real diamond is never perfect.

HOBBES:Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like.

You cannot live your life in the elitist world of fashion and not step out or you're disconnected. You have to realize that fashion is not the endgame.

I always really curious to see how people interpret things. I know my version, and I'm kind of bored with my version so I want to see their version.

I don't say that I don't believe in God because that implies that there is a God for me not to believe in.

I think one can advance faster outside a monastery if you use the experiences of daily life to advance yourself.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

...let men express the intense admiration, which I share with all other Americans, of the record made by the Marines.

Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be nature's own ecosystem.