Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.

No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.

The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep bleeding, but find some love in the blood.

Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.

I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to seek, or to supply: an empathy that rearticulates more clearly what it's shown.

Pain without cause is a pain we can't trust. We assume it's been chosen or fabricated.

We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.

Freedom from one man is just another one.

Bad movies and bad writing and easy cliches still manage to make us feel things toward each other. Part of me is disgusted by this. Part of me celebrates it.

Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.

facts are aligned on shelves as well, necessarily chosen and arranged, assigned value by explanations neatly stuck where prices might have been.

Love is not far away, Love is just a heartbeat from you.

I love to cry. It's such a great release. If I'm just tired - jetlagged, I didn't get any sleep, I want to cry. I think it's important to cry.

Sleeping as quiet as death, side by wrinkled side, toothless, salt and brown, like two old kippers in a box.

I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.

I take it very seriously when I take the pulpit. That I'm representing God.

I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.

Everything we do as a government is focused on getting help and support for hard-working Australian families. We are standing up for them.

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

You can't be in the music business as long as "Steve and Edie" have, if you stink.

I can still improve a lot, but there is definitely a limit to what the human body can do.