Few begin with anything like a clear view of what they want to do and the fortune they seek may come in a very different form from that which they have kept in view.

I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me.

Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

When a man has a flower in his life he builds a house.

It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and their authors.

A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat

To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.

And who's to say that just because something lasts only a short time, it has little value?

I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.

Life, weddings, relationships, road trips, gardening, making out, haircuts: few of the fun things in life always go as expected.

The only way the enemy can tamper with your actions is when

There's in my mind a...turbulent moon-ridden girlor old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathersand torn taffeta, who knows strange songsbut she is not kind.

Let today be the day you love yourself enough to no longer just dream of a better life

New projects are interesting when goals are grounded by the hunger to discover and integrate. The elusive are made concrete in such ways

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

I look for good possibilities in movies. I don't look for perfection.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

We want to make people feel something after they buy that ticket.

It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What’d you choose to do with yours?