Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.
He stared at the heart of his heart, the one woman in the world for him
I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case. . . I love you.
We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.
Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?
My feelings were hurt. Once I started I couldn't seem to let it go. Be strange if the person who matters most in the whole world couldn't hurt your feelings, wouldn't it?
Living is very serious, very real. It is also always a game. If we are wise, it is very real, very terrible, and very lovely, and a good deal of fun.
If you're inclined to dismiss L. A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L. A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.
I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth.
Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.