(A murderer about their victim:)"He was an expert in vicarious death. I should like to have been there to see how he enjoyed the real thing.

There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.

Maddock stabbed his fried egg with his fork, and bright yellow yolk bled all over his plate like a sunshine hemorrhage.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.

Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.

Back in the days, the groups and the bands that we listened to were like Earth, Wind and Fire, Santana and Grateful Dead. We don't have a lot of those bands anymore.

I'm not an ensemble actor, because it's always a lot of ego when you're all together in the scene. It's kind of intellectual fighting for something.