A lot of things we don't have to have, but they're enjoyable.
No man can resolve himself into Heaven.
I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.
I am not an Internet superstar.
I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship.
There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.
The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
People just get kicks out of making other people sad.
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
Develop a mind so filled with love that it resembles space.
Men have not stacked the decks against women.
I'm still very critical of myself in film.
The main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things.
We are all experts in our own little niches.
I try not to do anything that's immoral.
If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.
Patience has never been my strong suit.
My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.
After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.
Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.
I ate mythology & dreamt' - Yusef Komunyakaa (Blackberries)