Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

Difficult times revel true friends but also the unfaithful in your life. Be attentive always, but especially during tough times.

Life is the space between our things.

No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious.

The truth is, writing and directing are two very different jobs. They're not even remotely the same job. It took me a while, as a director, to understand that.

I guess mercy is a muscle like any other. You got to exercise it, or it just cramp right up.

When I first met my girlfriend, I was super intimidated. I wanted to impress her. I was thinking, Don't mess this up, man. You've gotta play your cards exactly right.

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.

The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.

All history was at first oral.

Yesterday does not equal tomorrow. Forget the past and move towards your goals.