Cold - cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

I am the only real truth I know.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

As long as God hasn't counted us out from the realities of our destines, victory will always be ours.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.

Nothing is more natural to me than horror.

Is it Obama's nation or an abomination?

Don't sacrifice what you want most for what you want now. Write down what you want most and see it often.

I was a big fan of Super Troopers, so working with the Broken Lizard guys was so much fun.

The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.

Do you want a you're hired president in Hillary Clinton or a you're fired president in Donald Trump? I don't think that's such a hard choice.

Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.