A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates.

The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.

Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!

Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.

One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.

How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.

The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than future generations and their fate.

Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.

Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped.

Language is a weapon, keep it honed!

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

I have been looking after the children. My wife has taken time off.

I always knew I was attractive to girls just from the point of view that they liked me.

A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

The people God put in your life are not there by accident. Don’t get so busy that you just give them your leftover time.

I think that all actors find they go down and then they come back up if you work on your craft. They come back up to the top and then they go back down and they come back up and they go back down.

I call myself a FFP: former fat person, and when you're an FFP, you will always see in yourself what people used to bully you for.

I've also never written anything really in LA.