You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

I was a coward. I went to the war.

I survived, but it's not a happy ending.

They would repair the leaks in their eyes.

I hated him for making me stop hating him

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.

Zapped while zipping.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, except there's still this sound you can't hear.

Stories can save us.

Stories are for joining the past to the future.

They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much.

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody.

I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential.

I don't like talking about music.

But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed.

I don't care how somebody gets their education, as long as they have one.

People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before.

Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.

Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.