One can build a perfect home, but not live in it.

Between any two beings there is a unique, uncrossable distance, an unenterable sanctuary. Sometimes it takes the shape of aloneness. Sometimes it takes the shape of love.

In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world

So it had something to do with the sinner, and something with the judge, and the fear of not being forgiven, and the relief of being loved again.

Nothing goes away. Not on its own. You deal with it, or it deals with you.

No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time

So many days in their shared life. So many experiences. How had they managed to spend the previous sixteen years unlearning each other? How had all the presence summed to disappearance?

He chose illness, because he knew of no other way to be seen. Not even by those looking at him.

she also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.

You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense to realize that there can be no number one.

If you put junk food in your body, your body will turn to junk.

How can you contrive to write so even?

It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.

There are days when I don't want to go to the gym or find myself not super motivated upon arriving. I would visualize myself playing at the Olympics.

The papers are full of murders -- strange murders. It is all nonsense that there are as many brains as there are men; mankind has only one intellect, and it is beginning to get muddled.

Film recognizes neither time nor space, only the limits of man's imagination

Most of the new jobs that people are getting are part time because of Obamacare. Obamacare is falling out exactly as it was designed.

Everyone's mind wanders, without doubt, and we always have to start over. Everyone resists or dislikes the thought of or is too tired to meditate at times, and we have to be able to begin again.