Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.

Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.

We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.

Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me.

We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.

The only book that is worth writing is the one we don’t have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed

Everything ends with flowers.

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.

There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn’t-eat.

Anything is possible for she who believes. Believe you can and you're halfway there.”Jeanette Coron

The scholar seeks the artist finds.

The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.

Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action movie that stays engaging.

When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.

It takes a leader to know a leader, grow a leader, and show a leader.

I meditate on a regular basis and reap benefits from this practice

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

I told you, everyone understands a quest.