Perhaps he makes a choice. He chooses the memory of her. That’s why he turns. He doesn’t make the lover’s choice, but the poet’s.

If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.
Andrei Tarkovsky

Art would be useless if the world were perfect.
Andrei Tarkovsky

Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.
Andrei Tarkovsky

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.
Andrei Tarkovsky

Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?
Andrei Tarkovsky

We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.
Andrei Tarkovsky

Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.
Andrei Tarkovsky

Of course life has no point. If it had, man would not be free.
Andrei Tarkovsky

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
Andrei Tarkovsky

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.
Andrei Tarkovsky

All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love.
Andrei Tarkovsky

“I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. there is only one bad thing about sound sleep. they say it closely resembles death.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris

“A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s worth something. And if I know for sure that I’m a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

“I have always liked people who can't adapt themselves to life pragmatically.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary