Authors are the closest thing man would come to understanding God. It is a remarkable thing to conjure up a life and create its story.

The bad news is, our past defines us. However, the good news is, our future will someday be a part of that past.

Love doesn't hurt, love doesn't cut, and in dark times love doesn't cease.Love heals, love seals, it drains out the world and leaves you with peace.

Good deeds may not lead to heaven...still do deeds that make you feel like you are in there already.

The man who has never been disappointed has never understood happiness, the man who has never been anxious has never learned patience, the man who has never been depressed will never know ecstasy.

What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend.

If wishes were grains of sand, the world would be a desert.

If you are the one perfect person in an imperfect world, you are flawed.

Though death might still the show, life would be the most critiqued act of our existence. Own your stage.

YOU CAN TRUST YOUR LOVE ONE, BUT NOT EVERYONE AROUND THEM.

We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. . . . Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really get.

If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?

One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what's good and what's not good.

Your absence is the presence of godliness.

A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons.