Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

It is the best investment to make an impact on others, because even when you're dead money alone will not bury you.

To see in the dark, close your eyes.

Sometimes it helps to swim to the other side of our understanding just to make sure all is well

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

One thing I'm not is a moralistic filmmaker. I'm not trying to tell people what to do, and I'm not trying to lead.

Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures.

Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms.

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.