It’s okay. Everything’s going to be okay. You can let go of the sword.""I can’t. I can’t leave him alone. I have to protect him.""You have.

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

It was impossible to get the Dimitri and Tasha thing out of my head, but at least packing and getting ready made sure I didn't devote 100 percent of my brain power to him. More like 95 percent.

There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor.

It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.

Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.

Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he didn't set the building on fire in the first place.

This isn't a Christmas special! This is my life. In the real world, miracles and goodness just don't happen.

He'd barely seen me coming, and despite the horribleness of what I'd just done, I kind of wished one of my instructors had been there to grade me on such an awesome performance.

Good God. Men everywhere.

In the real world, you can make your own miracles

Only fools listen to their hearts. Only fools get attached. We wanderers get in and get out just in time.

Look ahead, because life is before you, not behind you, or else you stumble!

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

I can never say a line someone else has given me, which is why script meetings on TV shows always go terribly for me.

If you don't think a film looks good then that is just a reflection of how bad the artist was that was using the paint that is really good.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul.

Sometimes you've got to shout the truth and wake people up.

I always go to bed thinking I'm the luckiest guy in the world.

It's not a question of doing the best thing for the environment - the best thing for the environment is for people to stop using vast amounts of energy.