I had this feeling like the solution to everything would be down there if only I could dig through all those clouds.

Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.

Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.

Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.

I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.

Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.

There's a hazy smile on her lips that won't go away, and her hair is a mess. It's like a brushfire filled with casualties.

‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

We writers are resilient souls.

Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.

Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.

It was like a mask had been pulled away from his face, uncovering a monster hidden beneath his friendly façade.

I can't justify to myself working less, even if you get more out of it. Even though, in practice, it does seem it would be better for me personally.

The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.

I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.

I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.

A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.

Sooner or later you end up making deals with women. It's an injustice, really.

Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.

What bothers me most is that I don't bother you.