“It is when we start to discipline our mind that we discover how many undisclosed relationships it already has.”

“When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.”

“Nicole and I worked together on Dogville and we were friends when we started this. That laid the groundwork for our fabulous relationship on screen and off.”

“After having spent years striving to be accurate, we must spend as many more in discovering when and how to be inaccurate.”

“It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.”

“When our mind can no longer see that these are kids in front of us, we start calling them adults.”

“How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?”

“Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later--no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover or how much we learn or forget--we will return.”

“I hate it when they tell us how far we came to be, as if our people's history started with slavery.”

“How intricately our loins are linked to our minds, and how tricky a thing it is when we embrace a woman while pretending she is another!”