I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

For true liberation, the only war we need to win is the war between presence and ego.

When you use anger to win a fight, you lose by default.

I urge the general public to be wary of the police on the grounds of health and safety.

To speak of television as 'neutral' and therefore subject to change is as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but I'm not about to go along with the gallery system.

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.

Life without an ideal is spiritual death.

There is no screenplay-writing recipe that guarantees your cake will rise.