the happiest among us will be most altruistic, most distinct, most benevolent and most awkward to some of us in a way.

Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich.

Be grateful for the blessing of the moments.

This is Bourbon Street, isn’t it? Where’s the freakin’ bourbon?

If you're gonna catch fire

To have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us?

I think he's got good potential, but he needs a lot of work.

All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.

I've never made money from films.

There is something that happens when we leave the land and enter the ocean. It's unexpected, the environment feels strangely welcoming. The ocean almost feels like... home.

A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it sounds hokey and librarianish to say so, but I just swooned when he did that.