Censorship defeats the right to self determination.

Learn from the past but don't forget to live for the present moment. This moment is your life.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

Be careful before leaving someone in a sorrowing situation. Say a word of prayer with them and share even a brief word of encouragement from the Scriptures.

When it comes to categorizing people, men and women into a group, it gets to be very dangerous.

I've seen a lot in my life. I've seen a lot of winning. I've seen a lot of testing times. I think when you're tested, you really find out what you're made of.

It's the things that aren't accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive.

Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.

No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or reduced in any way.

Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.

The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as well as a director.