Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess.

People who think dying is the is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.

I believe in the goodness of imagination.

You got to figure out which end of the needle you’re gon be, the one that’s fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.

And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.

I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself; I caused a brilliant wreckage. Some say I fell from grace; they’re being kind. I didn’t fall – I dove.

My mother's life was way too heavy for me.

There's no pain on earth that doesn't crave a benevolent witness.

What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.

If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.

My body might be a slave, but not my mind. For you, it's the other way round.

I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?

It was the oldest sound there was. Souls flying away.

Women made the best beekeepers 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting.

People in general would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.

We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think.

Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die.

To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.

If you must err, do so on the side of audacity.

Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.

I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something you probably don't know about me. I've hated the taste since I was a kid.

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.