We are getting used to levels of violence, we are getting used to seeing these horrific things going on all the time. I think it's tough. It's rough.

Animals are always goddesses and gods, like the god Anubis. He's the one who's accompanying the souls to the next life, and he's the one who decides if they will be able to cross or not.

Animals are also the ones that are guarding the graves, and they are the ones who communicate between the dead and the alive.

I always start with reality, in anything I do, everything I do, I always start from something real.

I go and film 50 people in Israel, 50 people in Russia, and 50 people in Romania, in Paris, because I really like to get some particles of something real.

We see everything, we see what's going on in Syria, we see what's going on with the refugees. What can you do about it? And we have to do something.

You can feel that something terrible is going on in another place in the world, and it's the other, it's not you. It's always there, it's them. But this them is also you.

I think that the world is in a very serious decline - very, very serious.

That's what animals do all of the time; they watch out, they watch out, and I saw, "This is us now." Us, the world, we are watching out.

I usually go to bed early to read. I read and I always say that I'm not a "bohemian artist;" I need to read for one or two hours in the evening, and the quiet, so I don't hang out a lot.

I carry some kind of consideration and weight and observations about what is going on in the world, but I don't go to execute it.

The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.

Rat is a lot like duck, except with a wonderfully nutty flavor.

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.

I always did well on the essay questions. Just put everything you know on there, maybe you'll hit it.

We gotta stop smokin', stop, stop. I mean cigarette smoking.

Throw away sacredness and wisdom and people will be one hundred times happier.

They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.

Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.