"I was incredibly depressed and I found myself avoiding doing interviews where my [20-something daughters] could hear me - or leaving books on the coffee table they could see."

“You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.”

“You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.”

“You can realign people's physical chemistry with sound.”

“Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll.”

Source : Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.123

“If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.”

“You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.”

“Sounis had been thinking of Ambiades. "He would have been a better man under different circumstances." Gen looked at him. "True enough," he said. "But does a good man let his circumstances determine his character?”

“Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.”