I have only to glance over my shoulder for all those years to drop away and I see it behind me again, the ravine, rising all green and black through the saplings, a picture that will never leave me.

...with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object.

I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.

That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the world. Its infinite possibility.

It was like waking from a nightmare to a worse nightmare.

their reality was far more interesting than any idealized version could possibly be

But, if I dare say it, it wasn't until I had helped kill a man that I realized how elusive and complex an act a murder can actually be, and not necessarily attributable to one dramatic motive.

Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw, " that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

The ceilings had set off a ghostly echo, giving all that desperate hilarity the quality of a memory even as I sat listening to it, memories of things I'd never known.

I sometimes get the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture.

Though Julian could be marvelously kind in difficult circumstances of all sorts, I sometimes got the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture.

-What is nothing? I impetuously asked.-It is what you can see of your eyes without a mirror, was the answer.

We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.

I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!

There are too many Destroyer records to just start rattling them left them off, but they're there.

I love singing. The joy of singing live - I don't think I will ever stop that.

How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?

Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about.

I could never swim in the ocean after seeing Jaws.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

Last night I made an insensitive comment which I sincerely regret. It was my mistake and I want to apologize to those who were offended.