When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

I come from nothing. When I got a chance to make some money, I was like, 'Man, I'm not ever going back.'

I think it would be really hypocritical of me to make the films I make, where I delve into people's lives, to say that my life can't be looked at or that I have to be this pristine, isolated figure.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet

When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win.

I try not to be neurotic; I try to create and present healthy body image.

There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.

My mother was pretty much on my case all the time.