Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.
I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.
I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.
I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.
I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management.
Relationships have always seemed very mysterious, and therefore worth exploring. I’m single, so it’s still kind of a mystery — a worthwhile mystery, one that I want to be on the scent of. . . I’m not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what’s on my bedside table rather than what’s in my bed.
From Blue Valentine I kept my wedding ring. I actually kept it on for a while. After the shooting had stopped, I was still wearing it – I couldn’t quite take it off – and now I keep it above the kitchen sink where I do dishes, as a little memento.
Chaos is always losing, but never defeated
When you really have the preparation time and things start taking the shape that they need, you have a beautiful feeling that comes from the hard work.
It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.
Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what is in fact their own incompetence as the rationale for giving them yet more power.