The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.

It's triumphant for someone to wake up to life. I feel a tremendous sense of liberation. You want to be able to use both your intuitive side and your go-get-'em side with no blame.

I am convinced, completely convinced, that there was nothing random about [the adoption], she is the daughter I should have.

My father says that almost the whole world is asleep, everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement.

I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.

I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.