Aura, I'm really patient, but I'm not a bloody saint.

Aura, " he whispered, "I wish I could wipe away just one of your tears. Then I'dfeel like a person again. Like I'm something more than a bunch of light.

I have never seen a wrestling match or prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.

I've always read, I've always admired writers and was lucky really to meet some extraordinary ones and become friends. Certain times you just like people, and it grows out like a nautilus shell.

The hope in the hearts of millions of national socialists can be fulfilled only by an authoritarian government.

It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.

Goals happen to be restrictive to me. Goals can cause me to maybe miss out or make a wrong decision on an opportunity that pops up.

Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous.

Presidents are not permitted to have personal feelings.

Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.