We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.

We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.

Symmetry is for God, not for us.

When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life...

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.

Possibilities exist in any problem.

Chase's look was hot, wicked, and not appropriate for minors.

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.

Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it's those hours that make us what we are.

We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization.

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.

Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge.

I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don't know any other way.