Don't underestimate the allure of darkness. Even the purest hearts are drawn to it.

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

That’s the problem with any ‘simple truth’—it always takes a gaggle of complete idiots or a team of all-knowing geniuses to miss it.

The sad reality is that girl-on-girl hate is such a big issue in schools, at work, or online, and it never made any sense to me because, as women, we know how awesome other women can be.

Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.

If I am convinced that I will procure the profoundest idea only by undergoing the profoundest pain, I shall beg for strength to endure that pain.

What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. Its just remarkable.

Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear.

Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning

Whoever loses the capability for inner silence, loses contact to himself and soon won't be able to think clearly any more.

He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.