Undressing myself had no fun in it, now I had undressed her.

And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.

I barely knew I had skin before I met you.

Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.

Even ashes are a part of your freedom.

I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.

I do love the past but wouldnt want to live in it.

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

Why is it we can never love the people we ought to?

I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.

With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.

Do not say you do not have education or abilities

We are the source of infinite love, infinite joy, and infinite happiness, but we spend our whole life looking for love, joy and happiness. How foolish is this?

We are so keen in our #pursuitofhappiness that we forget to be #happy!!

Thou shalt not think that thou be a leader, merely because thee be having more than 0 followers.

One day we will realize that big hearts will bring us more peace than big weapons.

Have a grateful heart to be happy.

My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.

I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.

You will not drown the truth in seas of blood

Nakedness of what you do is exactly who you are, and that's how it should come across.