Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.

Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.

She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.

You never know what's coming for you.

I think part of being a good screenwriter is being as concise as possible.

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days.

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.

There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.

Things that annoy me end up fuelling my ideas.

I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.

I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly.

The man's got more money than God, and he sends you a bag of coffee?

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

I give a lot of myself, so it will be good to release some heavy energy, and I know yoga deals with energy. So I definitely want to get into that.