Fitzcarraldo is that metonymic character that's unwilling to give up on his dreams. Meeting Walter was the point in which all of these dreams coalesced into a very real person with a very real story.

It's organic. It's like a river. One stream comes in and it meets another stream and becomes the Amazon.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love, that trust.

Time doesn’t create change. The changes in your life will be in proportion to the decisions you make.

I don't fight without reason. I don't want war without end.

Only in country music can you compare an old pickup truck and an old guitar to your wife and turn it into a love song... Thank God for country music.

For a heart without love is a song with no words And a tune to which no one is listening So your heart must give love and you'll find that You shine like rain on the leaves you'll be glistening.

The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

There is no such thing as a dumb question but there is such a thing as a dumb person asking a question.

May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.

And finally, let me just say it is a fact that not every city can dedicate resources to terrorism.