Now, as an adult, my hopes for the future were simple: I wanted to be alone, and to be surrounded by flowers. It seemed, finally, that I might get exactly what I wanted.

Anyone can grow into something beautiful.

This time, there was no escape, I could not turn away, could not leave without accepting what I had done. There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain.

There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain.

The open forgiveness in her eyes, the uncensored love, terrified me.

Nothing you could do would make me send you away. Nothing.

Hyacinth. Please forgive me.

Over time, we would learn each other, and I would learn to love her like a mother loves a daughter, imperfectly and without roots.

I would keep her, and raise her, and love her, even if she had to teach me how to do it.

You must not allow any of your time to pass by without adding value to yourself and reproducing your life in others.

The feeling of 'turning into your dad' is nothing compared to the realisation that your son is turning into you.

He sometimes halted without saying anything. Either he had finally nothing to say or while having something to say he finally decided not to say it.

Americans like to make money: Canadians like to audit it. I know no country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.

I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.

I'm very protective of how much I let people see.

The greatest all-around American film actor is James Stewart.

Our most modern sin is that we do not love the world enough. We have exiled the holy from this realm so we can turn its mountains into money.

If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.

I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.