Quotes from work

The Bridges of Madison County

“First you must have the images, then come the words.”

“The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.”

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

“The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.”

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

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

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

“I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about.”

“So here I am walking around with another person inside of me. Though I think I put it better the day we parted when I said there is a third person we have created from the two of us. And I am stalked now by that other entity.”

“Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of the mind and spirit, were what really counted.”