Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.

...bravery often demands a price.

There's nothing wrong with athletics, but they shouldn't get in the way of your schoolwork.

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.

I never knew words could be so sharp, until the wrong ones cut me

If I'm on a boat I will wave to every breathing thing I pass. If I'm not on a boat I try to avoid every breathing thing I pass.

Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?

There are wonderful people out there but also wonderful people right here.

Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.

Weird itself, even in the dictionary, is just something that is different and unexplainable. A weirdo is someone who follows their heart. Im definitely weird, aint nothing wrong with that.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder

The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.