43 quotes
The old ways must die with the old world. To begin anew, we must really begin anew.
Craft is important. The greater the idea, the greater the craft you need.
Dangerous Love (1996)
"When I was about three years old... I realised that words could move the power in a room."
The Age of Magic (2014)
I love your loneliness. It is brave. It makes the universe want to protect you.
Astonishing the Gods (1995)
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
I am always pursuing new ways of telling a story because a story is not a beginning, middle and end, a story is much more than that. A story is like an interval in the enchantment of living.
Our society is a battlefield. Poverty, corruption and hunger are the bullets. Bad governments are the bombs.
Dangerous Love (1996)
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering
A dream can be the highest point of a life
The Famished Road (1991)
We don’t have much time. The climate crisis has done something to time. We have a short time gap to turn things around and get the environment back on an even keel.
"You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your destiny. This life of yours will be full of riddles. You will be protected and you will never be alone."
The Famished Road (1991)
Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories.
Birds of Heaven (2010)
I kept looking forward the answer to things. I kept looking, and I never saw, and I became lost. I lost myself, lost my own reality.
Astonishing the Gods (1995)
Many people reside in us. Many past lives, many future lives. If you listen carefully the air is full of laughter. Human beings are a great mystery.
The Famished Road (1991)
Inverse of the word live is evil.
The Age of Magic (2014)
What if by sheer repetition we become the person we most often pretend to be? Does that mean there is no authentic self? Are we made of habits, compressed by time, like layered rocks?
The Age of Magic (2014)
To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.
Birds of Heaven (2010)
After a while I came to accept the curse of life. Every day was an entombment. Every day the dream of light faded from our spirits.
Responsibility is active. Vigilant. Actions become character and character becomes destiny. . .the moment you see something is wrong, you have a responsibility.
Dangerous Love (1996)
"The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but will make you stronger. Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you."
The Famished Road (1991)