Today, especially, it's a really unclear situation in terms of where the Israelis are at, and where the Palestinians are at, the world is kind of changing around us.

I think optimism and humour are key words for me to make the films accessible, which means they can really travel and be seen by as many people as possible.

I love and commit to nourishing my inner child.

The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th.

Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element.

Genuine blasphemy genuine in spirit and not purely verbal is the product of partial belief and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

I let beef get settled in the street, I just handle my business as a professional boxer.

Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.

I distress you; I draw fast to an end.

Christianity is called the religion of pity.

The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.

In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward.