I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live.

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.

Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

The truth will set you free, they say, but believe me, nothing will set you free.

You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

I always say the things you're not supposed to.

We're all different. Some people are musicians, some people are actors, some people are agents and some people are accountants... We're all different.

Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns

When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain.

A frontier is never a place; it is a time and a way of life.

Border security is a safety issue.

My greatest point is my persistence... However down I am, I fight until the last ball.

Execution is the chariot of genius.