The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.

That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.

I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays.

It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

Enjoy the ecstasy of daily dance.

There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.

We all age. You shouldn't discount it as a subject for a film. Just because the characters are dealing with issues that you might not deal with for another 45 years doesn't mean you won't like it.

Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money.

People are here because they've got baggage. I'm talking curbside-check-in, pay-the-fine-'cause-it's-over-fifty-pounds kind of baggage. Get it?

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

The only rule is don't be boring.

The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.

I've noticed the people most uptight about smokers and drinkers don't really have a problem with gluttony and gossip.