I no longer feel the need to see and sense more than I've already experienced. I just want so desperately to hang on what I have.

The truth is that I feel totally helpless, or totally inconsolable, to be more honest. I’m not trying to hide it, but it’s something you’re not to worry about.

But if two people do almost nothing except search for one another, it's hardly surprising if they run across each other by chance.

But what is a person, George? How much is a person worth? Are we nothing but dust that is whipped up and spread to the winds?

We are the universe.

Look at the world, Georg, look at the world before you've filled yourself with too much physics and chemistry.

But sorrow can also be contagious. Fear is different. It isn't as communicable as laughter or sadness, and a good thing too. Fear is almost entirely a lonely thing.

I can wait until my heart bleeds with sorrow.

Although I've always been easily led by my imagination, I was, and I remain, a rational person.

But the dream of something unlikely has its own special name. We call it hope.

The unification of worlds is an author's priority, as one of them surely resides forbidden to the public.

Who think about the end will never become a hero .

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up.

Anybody who doesn't think I want the Lakers to win is a fool. But I'm no homer.

I wanted [photography] to be more than a document, to be something that is as close as you could possibly be to the subject.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

Finished products are for decadent minds.

Red Dawn was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.