V had a passing thought that she used the word "anyway" like an eraser on a crowded chalkboard. She said it whenever she needed to clear off the things she'd just shared to make room for more.

Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.

But then, gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.

Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.

An active mind didn't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.

A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there.

Okay, well...how's that water feeling, then?' 'Excuse me?' 'The Nile warm this time of the year?

The unexpected will occur, but in the end, your life will never seize to become what you continuously make of it.

That's old world stuff. It's the ZA now.

There is no such thing as can't.

Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.

Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.

We have - through a hundred years of photography and two decades of film - been enormously enriched... We may say we see the world with entirely different eyes.

Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.

i never thought of it before, but with your height and build, you are going to look SO CUTE in your straitjacket.

More women speaking up and seizing the helm of power can create its own momentum. It can change the culture that helps perpetuate those external forces.

If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.