We think we think in a very literal way, but if you really ponder it, you don't think in a literal way. You're seeing in a literal way, and you're going from point A to point B, but if you really consciously think back at what was going through your mind when you went from point A to point B, you'll find that it's a very abstract process.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."

[The Autumnal]

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Is it then that they do not ponder over what is said, or is it that there has come to them that which did not come to their fathers of old? / Or is it that they have not recognized their Apostle, so that they deny him? / Or do they say: There is madness in him? Nay! he has brought them the truth, and most of them are averse from the truth.

Can you tell me what it means to waive your rights?"

I hold my breath as Jacob hesitates. And then slowly, beautifully, the right fist he's been banging against the wooden railing unfurls and is raised over his head, moving back and forth like a metronome.

Movies are too literal.