The things we remember are often things that have great emotional importance, and so they have a lasting effect.

We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.

What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is how a child thinks of his mother.

All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.

But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.