There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope.

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.

Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle.

I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot.

I like filming in New York a lot myself, but London is accommodating to me; the weather's very good there and the conditions for shooting and the financial conditions, the artistic conditions are good, so it's a pleasant place to shoot.

I've always liked, someday the lamb will lay by the lion.... but it won't get much sleep.

I am two with nature.