‎I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that.

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

Why is love intensified by absence?

Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room

It may be that we’re not seeing the wonder in life because all we’re doing is wondering how we’re going to survive life.

I got over shy a really long time ago. I'm queer, I'm feline, get used to it.

What our deepest self craves is not mere enjoyment but some supreme purpose that will enlist all our powers and give unity and direction to our life.

I'm not going to be like a rapper and mention the people I'm talking about in my songs by name.

Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future

I thought of myself as part of the general filmmaking effort. And as my scope broadened, I began to think about directing. I wanted to be the guy who got to say whether the dress is red or blue.

If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light.

We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

Suspicion is very often a useless pain.

What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?