There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

Every time his lips meet mine, my whole body begins a slow tingle that starts from within in my chest, and spreads like a wildfire.

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

Enough is enough. This is how we get started in Vietnam.

Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.

Freedom is now or never.

Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.

As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.

An evil conscience is often quiet, but never secure.

As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.

The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.