I said 'I was imagining you as a little boy, and as a teenager, and as an old man.'He said: 'I was looking at you and thinking how young you look, and how old at the same time.

Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.

I don't know what I'm playing at. I feel so romantic and furious all the time.

It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it.

He lies down next to me.He says, 'You know - you have a face to die for/''Well, don't die, ' I say, "we just met.

It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it

She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut.

Writing to you like this is the same as saying your name when I've woken up late, feeling sick, tasting rot. It's pointless, but it happens.

I think they're being cheap with their lives, that's why. So they seem ravenous for the worst thoughts I can have.

Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well.

As a child, I was afraid of the dark and the monsters on the outside.As a man, I run away from the light, afraid to show the monsters within.

I can't tell you how may beautiful women have broken up with me because they were bored. I can't tell you because it never happened. They all adored me." "It was your humility, wasn't it?

When you are risen on the eastern horizon You have filled every land with your beauty... Though you are far away, your rays are on Earth.

I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great for the story I want to do, in a realistic, normal story, using 3D on the emotions in a kind of intimate story.

I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.

Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures.

New York is a character, all on its own, and whenever you film there, it becomes part of the show. That's just the nature of being there.

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.