Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.

This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

With all the movies I've done, I still get recognized from my episode of 'Law & Order' more than anything else. It never fails.

Trust in Divine timing. Your future holds something far greater than your past.

Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.

The idea of heaven is Christianity's way of creating a hell on earth.

I'm taking the indie filmmaker's approach to building my career and that approach is developing a relationship with the fans.

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.