“The moment I let go, everything came to me.”

“He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.”

“I don’t let go of concepts—I question them. Then they let go of me.”

“Don't let the sun go down on me.
Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see.
I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free.
But losing everything is like the sun going down on me.”

“You can't fully enjoy THESE moments until you let go of past moments.”

“I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of discovery, I let it all go. No need to hide.”

“[Recounting a scene in The Gunfighter] Turn him loose, let him go, let him say he outdrew me fair and square — I want him to feel what it's like to every moment face his death.”

“I can see the first apple teetering when I let the third arrow go, catching the torn flap and ripping it from the bag. For a moment, everything seems frozen in time. Then the apples spill to the ground and I'm blown backward into the air.”

“My stories run up and bite me in the leg — I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.”

“I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.”