Sometimes I lie in bed trying to decide which of my friends I truly care about, and I always come to the same conclusion: none of them.

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

... we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.

I wondered how many other things had flown past me into death. Perhaps many. Perhaps I was flying past them, like the grim reaper, signaling the end. This would explain so much.

So this was what it was like not to be me.

If I could quietly kill her without anyone knowing, I would.

The boy was growing bored and this was a form of growing up.

I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.

I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.

When you believe, it activates God's power.

Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia.

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.

To have a mind full of peace, merely fill it full of peace. It's as simple as that.

Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.