Guided by film...we approach, if at all, ideas no longer on highways leading through the void but on paths that wind through the thicket of things.

...the world has become a photographable present, and the photographed present has been entirely eternalized. Seemingly ripped from the clutch of death, in reality it has succumbed to it.

The photograph annihilates the person.

The image wanders ghostlike through the present. Ghostly apparitions occur only in places where a terrible deed has been committed.

No one could honestly say that a musical makes sense.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

I just always wanted to be an actor. I don't remember ever not wanting to be an actor. I did a lot of musical theater when I was younger, and I really hope to get back there someday.

I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated

It takes courage to be the author of your life.

I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.

What we're doing is giving her new exciting fashion things every month.

To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.

A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission.