Could you fall in love with her if she wasn't smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now.

I promised to tell you how one falls in love.

Half a page--and the morning is already ancient.

If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.

I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.

He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall.

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.