Deploring other people--their lack of perfection--had always been our sport.
contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.
The complexity of human relationships is never simple to follow; it is like intricate lacework, but lacework made of steel.
there is no gateway to maturity; there is no line that is crossed. Maturity is like a maze, one path leading to another; it is like a great building full of corridors, one turning into another. Did anybody ever reach the end, so there was a clear way ahead, so he could say, now I am rich with knowledge, now I know all the answers?
murder is not polite.
Murder is a plant of slow growth.
A request not to worry is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.
The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity within this industry.
Coral reefs represent some of the worlds most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the seas most exquisite species will not survive.
That which we are, we are, and if we are ever to be any better, now is the time to begin.
I still find each day too short.