I, too, have stars/ and blue depths.

You have to conquer the mountain if you are going any futher

Don’t bring the ocean if I feel thirsty, nor heaven if I ask for a light; but bring a hint, some dew, a particle, as birds carry only drops away from water, and the wind a grain of salt.

ONE WORDOne word— one stonein a cold river.One more stone—I'll need many stonesif I'm going to get over.

God’s presence is the gift of prayer.

Writing is a struggle against silence.

I want to play challenging characters. You should never be satisfied.

Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true.

Every second you spend with the wrong person, is a second wasted in the search for true love.

I was in the right place at the right time.

I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

When people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything.