If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

No one can ever know you like those with whom you've shared the pangs of your youth.

You don't have to explain something you haven't said.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

If you lay one hand on Simon, vampire, I'll have you chopped up into tiny pieces and fed to my cat. Understand?

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.

Music is the framework around the silence.

People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director.