We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call it civilization. Culture, society, the workaday interactions of ordinary time.

Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned.

(Dune's Frank) Herbert made religion the inescapable instrument of cultural change.

People who are easily embarrassed – those who blush too often and too soon – usually end up retreating from excellence.

A fierce hatred of embarrassment ruled a surprising amount of the life of Moses Malone, the Hall of Fame basketball center.

You cannot operate from a place of love when you are emotionally unstable.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.

I genuinely try to make movies I'd want to go and see, movies that are a bit more challenging.

If you don't go do what you wanna do, you're just bullshitting yourself.

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.