Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break.

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

There is no escape if love is not there

She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.

The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him

There was something irresistible about popcorn.

From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.

How right- how incredibly, utterly right- and how impossible!

There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not even suspected? It was not escape that she had dreamed about, it was love.

All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.

Complacency often afflicts precisely those who have been the most successful.

There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.

It takes a long time to fully become who you are.

And personally, I watched him [Khizr Khan]. I wish him the best of luck.

The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

We need foreign skills to stay competitive.

I think nothing, at an objective level, is either right or wrong.

Everyone's crazy except you and me.

Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation.