A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.

And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.

If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.

Death was far more certain than God.