Ellie: "You could lie to me. You could tell me to be encouraged, that good will triumph over evil."Richard: "Good will triumph over evil."Ellie: "Liar.

Music repairs us when it breaks the silence.

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

Fasting is not nearly so deadly as feasting.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

I had a wall around me and a lot of fantasy locked inside.

Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.