People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.

Perpetual possibilities exist to win the game of life.

Lying down gazing at the cerulean blue-black sky, she slid her hands down to intertwine her fingers with his. "I love you, " she whispers.

No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.

But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.

Winners don't eat wieners.

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.