I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.

Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.

When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.

Every minute we were together, I felt like I was wandering in the dark through a strange house, groping for a light switch. And then, whenever I found one and turned it on, the bulb was dead.

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.

Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.

But I did go back and soon I realized why. I was in love

Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.

Being a head designer or art director or just even a designer, you need a certain level of experience and maturity.

How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?

When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.

The practice of yoga has been an amazing tool to actually unearth where my inspiration lives inside my body and mind and heart.

Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field.