The sky would be clear, colorless, mist blending together the air and the ocean, the waves whispering against the rocks.

Just because it's common doesn't make it less powerful.

I am going to be murdered.It wasn’t any easier to face in the daytime.

This will be the night I escape. The thought repeated in my mind like a refrain, over and over, and I believed it so hard that I whispered it aloud: ‘This will be the night I escape!

Hope – that silly, stupid creature that lived within me, no matter how often I tried to beat it to death – lifted its nose and sniffed at the air.

I was sixteen, still my mother’s prisoner, the night I became the whale.

I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don't dare to let out.

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us.

God, I hope he dies the night before one of his kids get married.

Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.

I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.

When you do a movie, it's like going on a journey. It's really like the director is the captain of the ship, and that energy, everybody feels.

Don't sit around playing Mr. Tough Guy. Don't say 'It's going to go away'... It's just important - just go get checked out. It's not like you're going to lose your manhood.

It is through realizing loving presence as our very essence, through being that presence, that we discover true freedom.

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.