There was a time when our desire for each other would have landed us in an asylum or prison, had it not been sanctioned by mutual assent. True or false.

The past is fractal premonition, infinite to the eye but nothing to be built on . . .

We are selfish, my illness and I. We think only of ourselves. We shape the world around us into messages, into secret whispers spoken only for us.

I am not a Virginian but an American.

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

Trust the comfy clothes you reach for day after day, your plain, regular, essential self.

Let the fame calm down first and then do something. I don't act on emotion, I don't spend on impulse.

The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.

People think I should be a success, but I'm afraid of it.

Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training.

I'm incredibly cheesy. I'm all about happy endings and all of that.

Fitzcarraldo is that metonymic character that's unwilling to give up on his dreams. Meeting Walter was the point in which all of these dreams coalesced into a very real person with a very real story.