Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.

Don't look back!" "Why not?" "Because I just did! Run faster!

Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be.

Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought.

Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.

...You want a special truth. *You* want the truth to be a truth that *you* like. You want it to be a pretty little truth that fits what you already believe!

I recall no arrangement, Mau, no bargain, covenant, agreement or promise. There is what happens, and what does not happen. There is no 'should

I am speaking like a book, but I believe that what I am saying is true.

One of my roommates, Rafael, he's an expert on monsters. Not that he talks about them. I can just tell. People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.

I had a handle on satisfaction, and I loved my career, but I didn't really know what happiness was. So I started on this quest to have a happy life.

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

Machinery makes men like itself.

Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state.

Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.

I think there's a core of real anger or misery inside every true stand-up comic.