Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.

Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.

The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.

I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choice.

I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.

People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.

I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.

I always tell the kids, You know what's great about going the extra mile? There's very little traffic.

Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.

One of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.

I don't often spend more than half an hour in prayer at one time, but I never go more than half an hour without praying.

Wars are not won by evacuations.