We sometimes imagine we want what we don't really want.

Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Memory changes as a person matures.

emotionless tone hurting as much as the news

Nolan was the only one who knew the real Lexi Shaw, and that was exactly how I intended to keep it.

My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was a 'Cinderella' story for me.

People help each other through a crisis by each supposing that the other can handle it better than he himself can.

I wouldn't mind getting emotionally involved with a woman.

be careful of monsters with teeth

Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise and rejoice among the branches.

If there are rules, we're the ones making them. We can change them whenever we want to.

God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.

Photography is a way of introducing people to other people.