I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.

Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

It is not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.

Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason

He had held out shakily, like a tree that had been hacked down to its breaking point. But that kiss was the last swing, the final impact, and he gave in finally, felled.

God's nothing more than a twelve-year-old kid with an ant farm. He's always watching, but He's never gonna do anything.

Be careful when getting what you exactly need in life.

'Mistresses' is about the lives of four women, each going through different versions of infidelity. Their longtime friendship is what gets them through extremely challenging times.

There is a certain thing that you have to just stick to the plan, stick to what you want to do, and you try to work with studios and executives that they get it.

That fame monster's a fool, man. It really is.

Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources.

Most Americans want judges who will stick to interpreting the law rather than making it.

Through your rags I see your vanity.