Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

Friendship fills your life with the essence of joy and mutual understanding. And some of the best friends in life have more than two legs.

As my hand found his, bitter salt tears spilled from my eyes, in sorrow and pain and regret that I had so utterly failed him.

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.

My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldnt do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

Making movies is really hard, and it can be humbling. And once you put them out into the world, you can't control how people will respond to it.

I just go out there and do what I do and try and hit my spots.

Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.

Happy to me is not what I thought happy was. Happy is actually better, because it includes room for sadness. A definition of success must leave room for failure, because it's part of it.