Asking questions is an art.

We cannot decide to love. We cannot compel anyone to love us. There's no secret recipe, only love itself. And we are at its mercy--there's nothing we can do.

It takes only one word to hurt a woman, a matter of seconds, one stupid, impatient blow of the crop. But winning back her trust takes years. And sometimes there isn't the time.

Oh, merciless freedom, you continue to overwhelm me! You demand that I challenge myself and feel ashamed, and yet continue to feel so outrageously proud to live a life full of my desires.

There are women who only look at another woman's shoes and never at her face.And others who always look women in the face and only occasionally at their shoes.

Reading makes you impudent. Oh yes, unknown father, so it does.

We are loved if we love, another truth we always seem to forget. ...Loving requires so much courage and so little expectation.

Often it’s not we who shape words, but the words we use that shape us.

I'm looking for what I was capable of before... Or to be more precise, I'm trying to see whether I'm still capable of it.

And yes, being lovesick is like being in mourning. Because you die, because your future dies and you with it...There is a hurting time. It lasts for so long. But it gets better. I know that now.

It's amazing how close you are to your essential self as a kid, he thought, and how far from it you drift the more you strive to be loved.

Know your worth and love yourself in such a way that anyone who is no good for you, wont be able to reach you.

In you is a formidable force that can bring the desired change you want in the world. Stop waiting for the perfect time, go to work now!

only the strong can stop a fight with kindness

Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.

The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.

In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words.

The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation, to be show business and art at the same time.

I think there's a playfulness and a distance to Kavalier and Clay that I don't aspire to in my stuff. Maybe I'm more old-fashioned, and less of a fabulist, in that way.

The Holy Spirit's motivation is always the same thing -to charge the word with heaven's own electric power.

To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.