Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

Under the seams runs the pain.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

The greatest among you are those with the greatest love.The richest among you are those with the most joy.

Patience takes away lots of stress, regrets, & sleepless nights knowing that all is well at the end of the day if we just wait a little bit.

If your eyes can not cry, then your gut will."The head and heart may be in denial of your human needs, but the gut will always carry the wisdom of your needs met and unmet, and thusly respond.

God is our refuge and strength a very present help in trouble.

[Yorgos Lanthimos] is really a master I feel, I really do.

We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.

Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.

You wouldn't desire something if you didn't have the talent to carry it out.

Anger is self-immolation.

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.