The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.

It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.

He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.

The little bit you and me might change the world, " Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it.""But it'd be there.

I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for, " Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

Only a man who is exceptionally skillful can stand before kings.

Every thing has multiple aspects, it depend on us what we look for and How we look at it.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

If I have an idea in my head, within no time it's into the computer, it may take more time to make it sound right, but that's the only issue.

To care for another person, in the most significant sense, is to help him grow and actualize himself.

My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.