"Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me."

“My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“They said you can't go to the moon. They said you can't put cheese inside a pizza crust, but NASA did it. They had to, because the cheese kept floating off in space.”

“There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.”

“As the world becomes ever more crowded, so folding will become ever more important.”

Source : "How to... fold things" by Guy Browning, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2000.

“The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.”

“I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.”

“My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.”

“You cannot escape sex. It will track you to the ends of the earth.”

Source : Jan Clausen (1981). “Mother, sister, daughter, lover: stories”