Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

When I come back to you, if I come back to you, will I know you? Will you be the city of my memory? Or will you be a stranger?

It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking.

American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

Trust me, I know what self loathing is. But to kill myself? That would put a damper on my search for answers. Not at all productive.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes.

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting.

Her name's Prim. She's just twelve. And I love her more than anything.