on the day that started it all, that rocketed me forward and landed me here, in this new body, in this new future.

But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.

If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.

Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.

Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down...

But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing.

At least when I'm sleeping I can dream myself back to Alex, can dream myself into a different world.

When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.

Sweetheart, my heart is your home, you can always stay there.

I got to stick with what I know [about The Clinton Foundation]. I'm not an official of the State Department.

Normal' is a dryer setting.

We're living in a time where we want to be entertained but I think part of what people are looking for, that they don't even know they're looking for is to be uplifted in many ways.

I've found that film-making's not just a job, it becomes part of your whole life.

Image is an international language.

Anything worth doing, is worth doing all the way. Just know you'll have to live with all the choices that you make.

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.