Don't they understand what fiction is?

Perhaps living in fear can drive all devils out of a person.

I like a bit of spunk in a lady

she'd played mother and wives. Women in narratives were always defined by their relations.

Also the fact that he's a guy. A girl screws around like Lotto and she's like diseased. Untouchable. But a guy can stick it to a million places and everyone just thinks he's doing what boys do.

Doomed people celebrate peace with sky bombs.

It was mathematical, marriage. Not, as one might expect, additional. It was exponential.

Mathilde and Lotto held hands in the taxi going to brunch, communicating, not speaking.

What she did not tell him balanced neatly with what she did.

When your family dismisses you, like Lotto's did, you create your own family

He got drunk as usual, but instead of drifting to sleep, he stayed up, and at a white heat, wrote what had been sitting on his heart for decades.

My mind can be ugly. But when I read something of mine that I think is beautiful, I'm reminded mind can be beautiful too.

No matter what has happened always behave as if nothing had happened.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.

In order to succeed, you can't be afraid to fail. Just do it and don't let anybody tell you you can't.

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

I think when you write an enigmatic character into a film, you have to have real confidence that the audience are going to go with it.

O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens.

Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.

I don’t see the point of truth anymore, it causes just as much heartbreak as lying.