I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.

To know and not to do, is not to know.

I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.

Smiles were rare in this house. Smiles had to be bought and paid for.

I don't see scary films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.

Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.

The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth.

I love you Denver Beck," she whispered. "I have for a long time." Then she stepped back. "Now it's your turn to decide if you love me.

When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there.

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.

In too deep to see the diamond, down too dark to see the gold. Now he won't let go of the shovel, and he cannot dig out of the hole.