To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing.
So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.
Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.
I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.
Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.
Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
Yesterday I was qualified, the Lord knows how, as your depute.
Acknowledging and accepting whatever stuff you may have to let go comes easier when you love yourself.
Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.