You don't have to know everything in the world. We aren't supposed to. It makes you boring in mixed company if you can't be interested and ask questions of other people.

If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end.

Maybe his heart is searching for and not finding the place it used to live. I understand that because mine is searching and not finding too.

which pisses her off and makes her scream and i look around my room and miss me.

All I can think is that I want her more than anything. I want her more than I've ever wanted anything, ever.

And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way.

A stiff attitude is one of the phenomena of rigor mortis.

It was only in a place like Paris where knowing the books someone loved, whether they followed Lévi-Strauss or Sartre, was the yardstick by which to measure them.

Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.

Sometimes the mind relives things very clearly for us...There are roads out of secret places within us along which we all must move as we go to touch others.

It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.

Life is worth celebrating and worth living even though we're all headed to the same hole at the end of the day.

You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.

I don't think you need $35 million bucks to make a movie. I think what people should do is make a lot more movies for a lot less money. You can really do it.