My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.

Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweighed.

Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.

Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.

You seem to think you have a choice, " Cam said. "But you have it backwards. Love chooses you. The shadow moves as the sun commands.

I can assure you that the life outside the front door is bright and full of life

A year ago I would’ve been taken in by his chivalry, but now I knew what laid behind the façade: a frog waiting to bite me where it hurt the most given half the chance.

I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.

Other kids are brought up nice and sent to Harvard and Yale. Me? I was brought up like a mushroom.

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

Loyalty is the greatest quality of the human heart.

I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.