It's funny. Maria Elena and I, we are meant for each other and not meant for each other, it's a contradiction.

The roe is reputed to sleep for a thousand years and then suddenly rise in flames, particularly if it was smoking when it dozed off.

When I was a young man, my friends and I and all of us in New York were very influenced by French cinema. French cinema played an enormous influence on those of us who wanted to be filmmakers.

I can't even make a leap of faith to believe in my own existence.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

To me there’s no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They’re all equally valid or invalid, really. And equally helpful.

And my parents finally realize I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.