...but it doesn't feel crazy to us. It feels like what we do.

Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.

Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

Necessity and desperation birth resourcefulness.

– Some people forget, do you know – they forget what it is like to be young, to feel things ruthlessly, terribly. If you forget that much of life, well, I don’t know.

The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.

It really kind of sucked to be close to someone for so long and then suddenly not be anything anymore.

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life.

A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center.

I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.

'Deadwood.' I could have watched that forever.

I had the most fantastic time filming 'Downton.'