What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA.

When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.

In a world where we are so pragmatic and materialistic, fear is the only emotion that allows even a sophisticated person to believe in something beyond.

You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist.... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating.

I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things

Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.

You have to believe the magic to see it.

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.

Give everything away. Create an emptiness to fill again and again with love.

We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.

Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!

In peace, the Middle East, the ancient cradle of civilization, will become invigorated and transformed. Throughout its lands there will be freedom of movement of people, of ideas, of goods.

The boss is not paying you. They just keep the money for you only. New customers who actually paid

War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't.

[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

We normally think if you're going to lend someone money, you should get some reward for doing this. In Europe, it's a tax!

Actually, he said Mr. Shawn 'cause he knows better.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.