I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.

Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.

I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.

All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

I am possessed by love and have no options.

I want my own country, not against Canada but for Quebec.

Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie.

The example my parents set, both in and outside of our household, helped me understand that we all have a specific purpose in life--to give back to society.

I think there is nothing sexier than a handlebar moustache.

With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.

If someone is cynical and doesn't vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame.

Second base is anything but magic. If it's anything at all, it's speed, sureness with your hands and lots of hard work.

Open your grief-stricken heart to the Lord. Weep and sincerely pray, 'O Lord, draw me towards You; give me peace of mind.' By doing so constantly you, will gradually attain peace of mind.

[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he is thrown into, as well as doth the author himself.

With every movie, we will spend a season of prayer just asking God what's on his heart, and we spent about a year, two years, in prayer, trying to figure out the direction for the next film.