And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.

Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.

It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.

I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.