No matter what happens, there is always the business of the world to attend to.

The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.

If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

(The raindrops) played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow.

We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.

Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.

The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all there is.

She came over and looked at the picture. Then she took my hand. You know what that feels like? Like what the astronauts will feel when they step onto the moon for the very first time.

Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.

Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Sixty years ago the idea of everyone having a telephone in their pockets was science fiction. Our whole way of life is science fiction, if you look at it from the past.

For just this moment, he wanted her to see him for who he was, without the pity he knew she'd feel when she found out the truth.

I have never been a violent man. Just a little creepy, it seems.

If someone didn't believe in me that would kind of be a compliment in a way.

You have twenty-one days to shoot a whole movie and sometimes you go into that thinking ugh, this could potentially be really, really difficult and it turns out to be the most incredible experience.

We grow, we mature, some of us give birth, we age, we die.

The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.

I know people can change-right down to my bones, through every cell, in every fiber of my body-I now that people can change. It is just a question of when and in what context.