In March of that year, I saw a man named Paul Barkley shot to death. It happened late at night in the parking lot of a café in Santa Rosa called Galileo’s.

The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldn’t bring ourselves to say.

People are complicated, ” she said. “Didn’t they teach you that in biography school?

Aren’t autobiographies born in a question we ask ourselves: how did I get to this point? Don’t we look back over the path and tell ourselves a story? This is how it happened. This is who I am.

Take a seat, Charlie, ” he said. “I’ll kill you in a few minutes. It’ll be good for you.

If they’re together long enough, every couple has one conversation over and over. This was ours.

The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.

I am beginning to give revelation over ley lines and power lines over nations and continents. I am releasing angels to war along with you and bring revelation over power sources and strong men.

I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

I think sensitive is the wrong description of me. I'm British, actually, so quite bad at expressing myself in conversation, as any ex-girlfriend will tell you. I'm probably emotionally stunted.

We must guard against allowing anger to drag us into sin.

I have never forgotten a picture that I ever made.

God is predictably unpredictable.

It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.