This is why I'm here on this planet, at this time, Francesca. Not to travel or make pictures, but to love you. I know that now. I have been falling from the rim of a great, high place, somewhere back in time, for many more years than I have lived in this life. And through all of those years, I have been falling toward you.

Anyone who can feel that way about a woman is worth lovin himself.

There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.

if only we lost our minds and arrived at our hearts

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before.

Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them.