Ethan: I love you, I whispered in her ear. She held my face in her hands and leaned back so she could look at me. Lena: I don't think I could ever love anything the way I love you.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

There are no coincidences.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

Who can judge the judge?

I'll love you until the day after forever.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.

If this were real life, Ed would have looked at her neck-bite, dead, burp, credits.

Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you. The question is, how do you evoke it?

Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world.

Sportsmanship is definitely an important thing in all sports. In soccer, we all respect each other on such a high level, between Sweden and Brazil and Japan or whatever team it is.

For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.

Most people think that aging is genetic and yet if your parents lived to age 80+ that will add three years to your life.

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!