She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent.

More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself

A makeover is the rebranding of a human being.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

If you keep groaning, please do it to a rythmn I can dance to.

Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.

Temptation out of reach does you no good.

Hate is a cancer that spreads one cell at a time.

Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.

There wasn't enough chocolate in the world to make this better.

[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.