As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.
People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.
The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
I am a man with an open mind. I really don't know anything, but I'm very interested in the spiritual and the material.
I've had my Charlie Sheen moments, it was usually just at the Mars Bar on the corner of First Avenue with me and a few homeless guys.
If you knew my wife, you'd be like, "Yeah, you're very married. " She runs the household. I refer to her as "the greatest director I've ever worked with. "
Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.