What was difficult was the travel, which, on arrival, is forgotten.

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see.

Intense love always leads to mourning.

I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.

From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.

The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.

The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.

At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

One day of praying and six days of fun, the odds against going to heaven are six to one.

I'm a true believer that everything happens the way it should.

To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there's a lot of things to choose from.

Hot oil! We need hot oil!... Forget the water balloons!

My hands are small, but they're not yours, they are my own... I am never broken.

I know for me, and what the Bible teaches, I want to have a relationship with Jesus.

It's important not to take all this fashion stuff too seriously, and I kind of love the idea of cheesiness.

If you want to enjoy intimacy, you must learn to enjoy pain.