Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare, Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste, As if it would each root's lost strength repair.

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.

Truth can only be found in a person's record of actions, not their list of intentions.

Having an open mind is the most important precondition for creatingnew ideas.

To be honest, Briec doesn’tconsider fights with humans as battles. I think he sees that more ashunting. Or a snack that runs.

Is the person I was before dead? Or will the worst things that happened to me eventually get diluted by the rest of my life, become just a part of the story that I've always been writing?

It occurs to me that I really can't remember your face in any precise detail. Only the way you walked away through the tables in the café, your figure, your dress, that I still see.

The Coens both give you direction, and then it's up to you to kind of figure out the music of what they're saying.

There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.

My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

God is not a person but creativity, not a creator but creativity.