Just make sure that the thing you're living for is worth dying for." --Levi

Time itself made all things rare.

Optimism is like a firefly. A bright blaze of hope, unable to be captured.

Let go of rousing speechand identification with thoughtsUntil your endyou will never be jaded

I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something.

Would I cheat to save my soul? No. But to save my G.P.A.? Yes.

A trap screenwriters can fall into is making scripts that are good reads, which doesn't necessarily mean it will make a good film.

One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential.

We only have one future, and it will be made of our dreams, if we have the courage to challenge convention.

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.