Childhood is the purest state. The pure of heart never leave it behind. Their life merely takes them on a cirtuitous route away from, and then back to it.

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.

It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.

I know that no matter how lonely I get, I'll never be truly alone again. Our loved ones don't leave us. They just move out of sight for a while, and wait...in the shades.

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.

The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying

I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.

But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

I could never acceptlife as it was, I could never gobbledown all itspoisonsbu there were parts, tenuous magic partsopen for theasking.

Sociopath. A label given, and a title received. A definition adorned? Or perhaps a ribbon atop a word.

I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation.

I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.

The key word of the dedicated Christian should be 'give.' Charitable contributions speak eloquently of your unselfish Christian generosity.

I wouldn't give my troubles to a monkey on a rock.

As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites.

I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself

The most important thing to do before you die is live.

You won't find average Americans on the left or on the right. You'll find them at Kmart.