I guess we all have some of these - memories like artillery shells, fired at close range.

[S]he'd realized that he had loved her only because she belonged to him.

I guess it's the same way trees grow around the very vines that are killing them, so they're strangled and sustained all at once. After a long time, even pain can be a comfort.

I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles.

This was progress. This was modernity: you could cover over the past completely. You could bury the old under a relentless surface of new, stretched from corner to corner.

But those are just words, and words are just stories, and eventually, always, stories come to an end.

Stop your idiocy, Sandra, please. For once in your death.

Sufilere sohbet gerek Ahilere ahret gerek Mecnunlara Leyla gerek Bana seni gerek seni

the code of a world he'd never been invited to join.

Besides, at 62 years old I look like I'm about 27.

The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.

Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

I wish I could, instead of destroying things like that, I wish I could build, build, build.

I like young girls. Their stories are shorter.

Do the math. Expect catastrophes. Whatever happens, stay the course.