come back, come back to me

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak.

I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.

For books are more than books, they are the lifeThe very heart and core of ages past, The reason why men lived and worked and died, The essence and quintessence of their lives.

A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.

We finish our own story. The details of our journey are still a mystery.

If one person is happier because you have lived, it is all worth it. And if you are that person, God is well pleased.

Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

I still am mystified about why Donald Trump is out there tweeting praise of Vladimir Putin, and still kind of denying and dismissing whether the hacking happened or the seriousness of it.

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

The big oxygen thing is out for Benni McCarthy... he's got a lot of medical round him

I recognize the amount of time that it takes as a director. I made the choice to stop taking roles outside of L.A. because I didn't want to miss any of my child's life.