He would be a better person, he knows. He would be a more loving person.

He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.

What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.

. . . breathing slowly and rubbing his palm against his chest as if to soothe his heart.

There was something scary and anxiety-inducing about being in a space where nothing seemed to be forbidden to him, where everything was offered to him and nothing was asked in return

This isn't fair, he would think in those moments. This isn't friendship. It's something, but it's not friendship. He felt he had been hustled into a game of complicity, one he never intended to play.

And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.

He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing.

My phone rang, and although it wasn't a sinister time of night, and although nothing had happened that I would later see as foreshadowing, I knew, I knew.

It's a good story, ' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.''Please, ' I said.And then he did.

He had never done it before, and so he had no real understanding of how slow, and sad, and difficult it was to end a friendship.

You have to be purposeful and intense to reclaim your lost years

The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust

The nice thing about being a director is that I can say, "I can only get into the room after the kids are at school, and I have to be back for dinner. And they're coming for lunch."

On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away.

Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time.

So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

The Passion of Christ is the greatest and most stupendous work of Divine Love. The greatest and most overwhelming work of God's love.

In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.

When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years.