Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.

There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.

Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.

The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button.

You have to push beyond every limitation to achieve the goal.

If you are your worst critic, don't be angry if others try to claim the title.

If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.

But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed.

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

My dream roles haven't been written yet. My favorite thing to do is to dive into the uncharted territories of a new script that's untainted by someone else's idea of the character.

The best thing we can bring to any fight is a calm and compassionate mind.

I am beyond logic and rationality.

Responsible is Able to respond, Able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves.