When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?

If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?

Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

I propose changing fear for hope. I propose changing Mexico.

You have to respect who the character is. It has its own internal truth, and you can't betray that. And if you don't betray that, it will not betray you.

Hope is not something you can just place in your back pocket or put your fingers around – it’s the belief in a world that has yet to exist.

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

Take my heart with you, baby girl. It follows you....always.

Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!

He liked the fact that Venice had no cars. It made the city human. The streets were like veins, he thought, and the people were the blood, circulating everywhere.

There are tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people living in poverty and danger who might readily seek to enter a Western country if the opportunity is there.

Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.