Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Die before you die, there is no chance after.

Moments are precious, sometimes they linger and other times they're fleeing, and yet so much could be done in them; you could change a mind, you could save a life and you could even fall in love.

I developed a group of friends around me that were all as crazy as I was about wanting to make films.

Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which there is enlightenment.

I love Willy DeVille. He's very missed.

God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.

You in trouble?” Sam asks. The way he says it, I wonder if he’s thinking about how to get out of here if I am.

New technology is changing the way we can film. It's enabling us to get fresh new images and tell brand new stories.

There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution.