Love me less, but love me for a long time.

I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.

If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.

I will be the one to leave you.

If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it.

flagrant, adj. I would be standing right there, and you would walk out of the bathroom without putting the cap back on the toothpaste.

It was a mistake, " you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It's as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen.

elliptical, adj.The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It’s as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen.

Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself?

yearning n. and adj.At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.

There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

When you have terrorists, you don't throw at them balloons or you don't use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.

I got an early education from television.

Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.

Your heart is like glass, if it breaks, it's pretty hard to put it back together again.

Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.

I have stage combat training from college, which is drastically different than fighting for the screen, but I do enjoy that kind of stuff.

Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good.

In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If you don't have it in you, you'd better do something else.