We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

They think my mother's ashes are marijuana.

You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.

God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love.

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.