She didn't see it because when it came to love, she saw what she wanted to see.

Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.

Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.

To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.

Love makes us such fools.

She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.

children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people

The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as if something more lingered in those darkened spaces.

She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved.

The whole world had given up on love anyway and clung instead to its malformed cousins: lust, narcissism, self-interest.

Because I'm your mother, that's why.

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.

If I want to keep making films for a few more years, I probably should be willing to adapt. I've sort of evolved into the filmmaker that I am because of natural selection anyway.

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

A request not to worry is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.

I do not like to see men walk away from women in late middle age.

Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country.

Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.

If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.