A moment of reserve. "That was it? The whole story?""Yes. God, you're right. That was pants."I sidestep another aggressive couscous vendor. "Pants?""Rubbish. Crap. S

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.

You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.

Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.

I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!

I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

Yes, St. Claire. I like you. But I can't say it aloud, because he's my friend. And friends don't let other friends make drunken declarations and expect them to act upon them the next day

French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.

I mean, really. Who sends their kid to boarding school? It's so Hogwarts. Only mine doesn't have cute boy wizards or magic candy or flying lessons.

Soap?""School of America in Paris" he explains. "SOAP".Nice. My father sent me here to be cleansed.

There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering.

A saw by itself holds no value, but when coupled with your labor can clear forests.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it.

I hope America does not accept the kind of language that Donald Trump is using to describe our fellow Americans.

I am not pushy. You want it, you buy it. Most people hit the customer over the head. But if you're too self-important, it's kind of repellent.

It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.

As Spengler observed, all urbanized societies seem to develop a subconscious death wish, making individuals indifferent to the survival of their families and their race.

I don’t really have a relationship with the guitar; it’s like my slutty lover, whereas I’m married to the piano

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.