I wish I hadn't. I wish I'd fought for you. I was weak and stupid.

It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they are.

I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.

I want him to be happy. And I want you to be happy, too. Even if you can only find that happiness without me.

With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than not, disappointing him.

Thoughts race, as if, in a mind devoid of memory, each idea has too much space to grow and move, to collide with others in a shower of sparks before spinning off into its own distance.

What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?

There are memories I am better off without. Things better lost forever.

The Sun can rise anytime in your dreams. And there night may fall anytime as well.

Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion.

You've always made the mistake of being yourself.

My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

I want to be a top-flight football player, so I lead the life that enables me to be that type of player. I prefer to be seen in a decent light rather than an indecent one.

I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.

The artist must be ecstatic about something.

The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.