I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond, massive, serene, and I wonder: are they dreams of fish, or fish who dream?

The dead person is not truly dead until the last person who rememebers them dies.

I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying.

What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.

It is a rose planted in your heart, and as it's thorns tear you, so does it thrive and flower

The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.

'So what happens next?' 'Everybody dies, and the people who don't get married.' 'Like any other story, then.'

Gossip was usually a mindless distraction from a far too serious world.

The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.

I've always hated it when people overspend, are spoilt or throw their money away.

The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying our unbelief starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day.

I think my films kind of walk this line that Im proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

Tell me I can't so I can show you I CAN!

There is nothing we need be afraid to say before the Lord.

The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.