All I knew about bees when I started to write 'The Secret Life of Bees' was that they can live in a wall of your house, and that they make this incredible thing that I loved.
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
I love music, and I love acting, so if I can just live and be able to do those two things, I can be happy, you know?
I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.
Why spend a lifetime wishing for things a lot of people already possess in their lives? Your greatness lies in persistently going after your desires.
To live a happy life, you must make it your daily responsibility to frequently focus only on the things that make you mentally and physically stronger.
It's a very weird thing. When you see your house naked, you feel very protective of it and of the people who lived here before.
If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person.
Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.
I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.
I feel I'm just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it's basically a whole army of people focused on one thing.
It was the love which the hunter has for living things, and which he can only express by aiming his gun at them ...
Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
We're kind of in a voyeuristic world. We have TV shows that are all about watching people do weird things in houses. People are obsessed with that. There's live coverage of it.
Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
Voicing out your concerns in a calmly way is a great thing to do and it helps and saves lives of those who can't speak up.
I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was 'Detroit Rock City.' I heard it in the school library, where I lived.
Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
