I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to do it." So I went ahead and drafted it.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

If you don't synthesize knowledge, scientific journals become spare-parts catalogues for machines that are never built.

Your time is your time. Be awake to it. It's hard work to be wisely alive.

At the same time that 'I' am the content of a relation, 'I' am also that which does the relating.

I think the whole experience of being a human being on the planet is such a mystery, to be honest. Trying to figure out one's purpose and [asking] "What is it all about?"

Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks.

I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth.

Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.

They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then am I superstitious in not wearing black.

Those things please more, which are more expensive.

I think that for me, as far as audience expectations and how you manage your anxiety, it helps to keep things in perspective.