We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.

For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything.

Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists - adults, all - have a hard enough time trying to figure out where to look. It doesn't have to be that way. The greatest solutions in society are reached by corporate thinking, ruled by a motive to either make a profit or go out of business.

Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.