"I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it."

"I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all."

"Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace."

"A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene."

"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time."

"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture."

"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."