The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory.

Champagne is the only drink that leaves a woman still beautiful after drinking it.

Judgment is guilt wearing a moral mask to disguise its pain.

Running gets everything done, doesn't it? Covers it all.

I'd like to make it very clear that getting bitten by a venomous snake is dumb, clumsy and nothing to be proud of.

That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

When people say, 'Your music was the music of the Seventies,' I say, 'So was discoteque.' The Seventies was also the highest peak of heavy metal. Pick a genre - they were all alive.

I actually started out on the stage as a singer.

I do not believe that the children of presidents or vice-presidents should be assigned to combat zones. They have no place there.

'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated.

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance.

I owe everything to 'Arrested Development.' It just shows that everybody is kind of a job away from having relevance again.

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate from the palate to the fingers end.

I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it.

I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.

Old programmers never die. They simply give up their resources.

The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.

Women are used to worrying over trifles.

Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism.

Everybody works in a different way, and I've worked with actors that have no training whatsoever who are phenomenal.