You restored me to the concept of home.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Time itself made all things rare.

Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.

Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.

...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.

I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

My mind is huge with little stories that I never told you.

Life is something for which there is no answer

Indeed, like so many encounters with Jesus in the Gospel stories, we might go to the Bible looking for answers, but we usually come away with more questions.

Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.

The entrepreneurial mind-set is that risk is the heightened probability that there is a big range of possible outcomes.

I always like to think that I make movies that are like Nirvana songs. They have a slow verse and then they pop into high gear and then they go back into slow and then they pop into high gear again.

You have to go with things that you understand. Businesses that you know.

I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.

How can the Bible be "infallible" when from Genesis to Revelation slavery is commanded and condoned, but never condemned?

Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted.

Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.