Even the brightest of dreams-come-true had shadowy recesses.

You look at the history of any sentient species and what do you find but tableaux of violence and slaughter. It’s finger-painted on the ceilings of caves and engraved into the walls of temples.

He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns.

Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself.

We should always be grateful for the faults in our partner because if they didn't have those faults from the start, they would have been able to marry someone much better than us

Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.

Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things.

If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.

Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.

Technology has outstripped our knowledge of self.

There's no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we're happy; end of story.