But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.

Everything that happens to you matters to me.

I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.

It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.

There might not be so much of a difference between the side of Light and the side of Dark as you suppose. After all, without the Dark, there is nothing for the light to burn away.

He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.

with his customary crooked smile, “are just too unlikely to dwell upon.

Yes, she's bleeding to death upstairs, but I thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.

I just don't see why the past has to matter.

ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head

Things change. People change. Everything changes. The universe is in a flux. Energy reinventing itself constantly.

Confidence is simply knowing what you’re able to do.

Harvest is a joyful time of gathering the produce of the land

For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.

I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can’t people be happier together?

Genius involves both envy and calumny.

But some people want attention so bad they want you to see them angry at you.

He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.

I volunteered to deploy to Iraq. I was one of the few soldiers who were not on the mandatory deployment roster - close to 3,000 Hawaii soldiers were.