His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

Life wants you to know that people are more important than things.

The past is that which we possess fully and in whole.

High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this.

The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth

Whether I'm hitting .100 or .300, I have resolved to at least enjoy every game.

A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

It's always good to find things that you haven't found before.

Your good is happening right now, even as you accept this statement of truth.

Ultimately, you just have to do what feels right for the film. It really helps when you have great collaborators like my editor, Eduardo Serrano, who kept telling me various scenes should be longer.