As if I hadn't spent a lifetime pretending to forget.

I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.

Those who live in memories are never really dead.

It'll be a change, " says Marcus. "Something different.""Not a mystery."Marcus laughs. "No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history."Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing.

...home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children. But whether tomorrow or years from now, I cannot guess.

Poisons are more my thing

I had forgotten, I suppose, that there were bright memories in amongst the dark.

There was some part of me that never left that house. Rather, some part of the house that wouldn't leave me.

Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing [as a nice safe history].

And I knew then that there would be no telling me what he saw. I understand somehow that certain images, certain sounds, could not be shared and could not be lost.

Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.

Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are.

YOU SAY "POET" LIKE THAT MEANS SOMETHING.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture imagine where things can happen in space.

What's made Milwaukee famous has made a loser out of me.

Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

And as this round (ring) is nowhere found to flaw, or else to sever. So let our love as endless prove and pure as gold forever.

Faith is not about how much you believe in what you believe. Faith is about believing that the One you believe in is believable.

Animation taught me to draw quickly and clearly and to communicate a character's feelings through his or her body language and facial expressions.