“Violence is not the answer, it doesnt work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings ...”

“When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happine...”

“If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?”

“Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.”

“I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.”

“Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”

“Song of myselfNow I will do nothing but listen, To accrue what I hear into this song, to let sounds contribute toward it. I hear bravuras of birds, bustle of growing wheat, gossip of flames, clack ...”

“Learn when to talk and when to listen. If you're unsure, listen.”

“The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated in 'infantile pregenital erotic exuberance, poly...”

“World is not like what you see”

“What you see is what suffices you”

“...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.”