He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.

Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.

I think we're all fighting for the day in which partisan politics is no longer something that is used to attack women's access to health care.

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

When filming, I like to travel with an instrument.

A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book.

If you don't like what you're getting back in life, take a look at what you're putting out.

Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.

It's such an intimate experience, being a director, artistically. It's deep and it's satisfying and it's wonderful, on so many levels, but it's also really scary.