An apprentice was unquestioningly loyal until the moment he wasn't. Both Master and apprentice knew this.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

It's not the balanced life we remember, it's the beautiful life.

You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.

The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.

I think that's coming to an end. And, you know, when we ... we can't beg them [russians] to get along with us. And I think there was some of that going on, which has now ended.

Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.

I always want to push myself, even though I'm not in the entire thing. My friend Taylor says, "If you're the smartest person in the entire room, you're in the wrong room."

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.