And the man who dreamt of flight has tripped and fallen in a hole.

You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.

Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape.

At some point your candle will go out, so make use of the light.

It shouldn't take a life-changing event to spark change in your life.

I have often believed the pen to be a needle, and ink to be a thread. Each story is an intricately woven tapestry and with each word I invariably sew a piece of myself into the page.

It shouldn't take a life-changing event for you to change your life.

I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.

We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of the week before.

The death of a lesser man is the death of all those who believe themselves to be greater.

This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

There's no sense in going to a tournament if you don't believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change.

It's always darkness before the dawn.

But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.

The Buddha’s dharma didn’t teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening.

It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine.

The book. Calming object. Held in the hand.

Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.

Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.