I guess time doesn't flow in order, does it - A, B, C, D? It just sort of goes where it feels like going.

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.

We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.

Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.

The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless

Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.

When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.

I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.

Life without knowing your destiny leads to “rat races”, depression and frustration, and attempt to commit suicide

I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes

My grief has burrowed into me like a dark thing that eats away at my life.

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

Surrender is faith that the power of Love can accomplish anything even when you cannot forsee the outcome.

The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.

Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next '1' ready to be launched in case I drop.

Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.