Although I've always been easily led by my imagination, I was, and I remain, a rational person.

The truth is that I feel totally helpless, or totally inconsolable, to be more honest. I’m not trying to hide it, but it’s something you’re not to worry about.

But if two people do almost nothing except search for one another, it's hardly surprising if they run across each other by chance.

But what is a person, George? How much is a person worth? Are we nothing but dust that is whipped up and spread to the winds?

We are the universe.

Look at the world, Georg, look at the world before you've filled yourself with too much physics and chemistry.

But sorrow can also be contagious. Fear is different. It isn't as communicable as laughter or sadness, and a good thing too. Fear is almost entirely a lonely thing.

I can wait until my heart bleeds with sorrow.

I no longer feel the need to see and sense more than I've already experienced. I just want so desperately to hang on what I have.

But the dream of something unlikely has its own special name. We call it hope.

Those who amass wealth through wrong means not only become lesser humans in the course of amassing, but also essentially underscore that their next generations become even worse human beings.

I think I'm even more open and more giving as a father now. I pay more attention now because I value it more and I'm less caught up with my career.

We have seen pictures [of mars] where there there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

America's highest economic need is higher ethical standards -- enforced by strict laws and upheld by responsible business leaders.

Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.

I wanted to have a place and a space, and a building, in which to create a season of work I am here because the idea of a theatrical home is very appealing to me

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must. Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.

I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.