Death augments distance and dulls the memory. Death reconciles.

Only the footsteps of the blind are short, but their thoughts are long.

The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

Ah well, 'tis the way of the world -- births and deaths, births and deaths.

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded by the sun, we will yet force it to smile.

Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.

To succeed in life one needs two things -- influence and a lucky star.

When a woman weeps, it is a man's shame.

Who strikes man with love -- God or the Devil?

The moon was so young, so strange, even as a young girl who is dreaming and is afraid to tell her dreams; and it was shining only for itself.

I needed some space to lay myself out, so that I could decide which pieces I wanted to pick up.

I'm thirty-four.""You don't look thirty-four.""That's because I'm not married." Mae's smile felt as if it were set in concrete. "Marriage tends to age a woman.

I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.

Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.

Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.

Scarlett Johansson. I think people don't really realize how great of an actress that girl is. She's so beautiful and that distracts you from what she can do as an actor.

I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.

The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.

Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.

Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan.