A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it's ready.

My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

The only monsters I have ever known were men.

If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.

he was so beautiful because when he held her he was not concerned with ‘being a man.’ ‘being a man’ had nothing to do with this. these flowers pouring from his chest. – weightless

...Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.

All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.

Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.

They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

Not every person is going to understand you and that's okay. They have a right to their opinion and you have every right to ignore it.

You cannot create new science unless you realise where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.

One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and it will reduce the cost of rockets.

The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return.