I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not.

That's how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don't have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.

The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.

Try a little tenderness.

I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don't spend time in the tomb without it changing you, and everyone who was waiting for you to come out.

I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.

Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.

Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.

Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.

I will be free, no lover's kiss to bind me to earth, no bliss of love to counteract actual bliss.

I realised that if I did what I wanted to do, it would work.

If the world is turning, even the church can't stop it; if it isn't turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.

Successful guilt is the bane of society

It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.

I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.