Charles looked at her thoughtfully. "People talk to you," he said. "That could be useful.

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Evil must always be fought.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

The only certainty life contains is death.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

It is in everyone's interest that every person's creative genius be encouraged and allowed to develop and express.

i was delighted I had offended her upholstered sensibilities.

The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.

People are always fighting reality until it's pushed down their throats.

Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured.

I'd defend myself. But I don't go around shoving people around; that's not me at all - that's for a cop. I'm not into that type of behavior at all.

All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.

One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.

It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege.