"I am a villain, but I'm not your villain."

“I'm very bad at watching anything. I'm bad at going to theaters; I can't watch my own stuff; I watch a lot of sports.”

“A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.”

“A need to concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower.”

Source : "Arvo Pärt 24 prelüüdi ühele fuugale". Documentary, DVD, 2002.

“I'm more trying to connect; I'm more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.”

“I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with.”

“The first thing that a person finds in life and the last to which he holds out his hand, and the most precious that he possess, even if he does not realize it, is family life.”

“Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs.”

Source : Friedrich Schleiermacher (1994). “On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers”, p.31, Westminster John Knox Press

“In the whole of the universe there are only two: the lover and the beloved.”