A movie is a movie and a book is a book, and they have different rules.

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous.

If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all people holy.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?

Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.

Who I've been is not as important as who I'm becoming.

True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind.

The thing I always thought of myself as was an actress. I never thought: I want to be. It was always: I am.

Things come out of nowhere, and you start evaluating the director, the cast, and all those other things going into it.

You've only got so long to live.

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.