The curse of modern times is the preponderance of male hormones in places where they can do long-term damage. Even if were not talking about wars between nations or assaults on nature, there's still that aggressiveness that keeps us apart from each other and the problems we need to be working on.

Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.

An inherent kindness exists in the process of aging ... we are allowed to move along gradually.

Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.

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.

For we have come by different ways to this place... I can tell by the natural ease with which you wear fine clothes and the way your mouth moves when you speak with waiters in good restaurants. You have come the way of castles and cathedrals, of elegance and empire.

And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies.