You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.

To feel alone is to be alone.

I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

With writing, we have second chances.

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.

Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.

I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.

Take a step towards actualizing the very thing you are persuaded for and do not allow injustice to silence your voice.

Grace is not something for which I must look in my heart. It is in the heart of God.

Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.

The only purpose of the visuals, in any film, is to serve the story.

My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.

Every drop of sweat and every breath we take in life, if not taken for the sake of Allah, will lead to regret and sorrow on the Day of Judgment

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.

For every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres.

Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.