“Maybe the world isn't really different, but I am different, and I am in the world.”

“We love films because they makes us feel something. They speak to our desires, which are never small. They allow us to escape and to dream and to gaze into the eyes that are impossibly beautiful and huge. They fill us with longing. But also. They tell us to remember; they remind us of life. Remember, they say, how much it hurts to have your heart broken.”

“Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.”

“The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.”

“Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.”

“All the world's a stage we're going through.”

“Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.”

“The excellence of every Art is its intensity.”