...you cannot punish a wet child for the rain.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

There are no coincidences.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

Who can judge the judge?

I'll love you until the day after forever.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

There's no point having wishes if you don't at least try to do them

Aren't you getting tired of people hating one another? What do they think they get out of it?

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

I want to live in a city where immigration is seen as a new source of strength.

In the pulpit, I really feel like I'm in my sweet spot, I'm in my stride.

It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.

Cinema is dead, long live cinema.

People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.

Try not to let your emotions affect your judgement.