Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing.

All the same, writing honestly is very difficult. The more I try to be honest, the farther my words sink into darkness.

Three children lay on the rocks at the water's edge.A dark-haired girl, two boys, slightly older.This image is caught forever in my memory, like some fragile creature preserved in amber.

Lo, which a greet thing is affeccioun!Men may die of imaginacioun, So depe may impressioun be take.

They do sometimes protest...At these times, she sounds authoritative. But she has no authority.

I always like doing things that no one's ever done before. Doing things a little out of the ordinary.

Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.

It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.

Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story events that mere mention would spoil.

I think sometimes the very reason we go through something is so that we can be empathetic with another person later on.

After a play in the field Casey would turn (to the players on the bench) and say 'What did he do wrong?' or 'You're better than that guy.' Either way, he'd keep them from getting stale.

My doctrine is as I've described, which is confidence in our cause, clarity in our purpose, and resolve in our might.