I had the endless day, months and months of endless days, and yet my return date bounded this sense of boundlessness, kept it from becoming threatening.

I formed several possible stories out of her speech, formed them at once, so it was less like I failed to understand than that I understood in chords, understood in a plurality of worlds.

I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former

My experience of my body was her experience once removed, which meant my body was dissolved, and that’s all I’d ever really wanted from my body, such as it was.

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

The greatest thing about youth is that you're not yet battle-weary, so you'll try anything.

Because even if you buried yourself in guilt, you can't go back and change what happened.

If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I've hamstrung the melody.

Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

The Way to Heaven has no favorites. It is always with the good man.

I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

The very foundation of the living of life lies in the desire of every man to give service to fulfill the needs of his neighbor.