Wherever there's hope there's a trial.

I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both ... different. In spelling.

I watched a lot of series. I didn't watch a lot of movies on TV. But I watched Gilligan's Island and Star Trek and all that stuff.

The following is a phrase we don't hear enough but that I sincerely mean (and our culture needs to hear more often): I love being married.

He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

At Casablanca we did 'Midnight Express,' 'Flashdance,' and 'The Deep.' My willingness for risk has always been my strength.

I don't even know half the time what I'm nominated for.

I use contemporary media to reanimate sites and places with images of their own lost histories.

Besides, our nearness to the King in love Is near the hate of those love not the King.