...reality, the name we give to the common experience.

I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.

Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.

The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.

Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.