Some of the djamphir are so pretty it almost hurts to look at them. And it was hard to look without feeling rumpled and messy in comparison.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Are you listening, little bird?

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it.

You are the one who takes the peace away from yourself. You are the one who’s harming yourself.

Well, I sing by night, wander by day. I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay.

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

Lasting solutions to many social problems will be found only as we each learn to say, 'I am society'.

Sometimes there's no warning. Nothing at all.

You ought to try being cruel to some people.

When I really treat myself, I go to incredible Leonor Greyl in Paris for a head massage.

You yourselves are the Being you are seeking.