The perjurer's mother told white lies.
The power to hurt. . . has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.
I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.
Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.
The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.
The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.
I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip.
Because I was familiar with Taika's Watiti work and there's a very subversive, funny streak amongst all of them. I don't think he turned [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] into a sort of drama, there's too much dark material underneath it for it to be a comedy; it wasn't designed to be a comedy. I think it's a comedy. . . I think it's a drama that's funny; which is different.
The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.
Right now one in three teenagers meets the medical criteria for addiction, which is scary. I'm so driven because when I walked into rehab, I was like, "Am I still drunk? Did the guys give me the wrong address? Am I at a summer camp?" And it kills them. Deaths attributed to drugs and alcohol have overtaken all other emergency-room deaths.
The strangest part of Indian music is its lack of chords: There's no such thing as major or minor, and it's unusual to hear more than two different pitches at the same time.