Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

People who keep journals have life twice

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

I came I saw I conquered.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

Liberty is worth paying for.

I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.

Either way, you are in charge. Jealousy works against you. It takes control away from you, hands it over to the opposition. Maintain control.

The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.

Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows.

There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it.

As a director, you should choose a project that will educate you and enrich your life, because you're going to be doing it for two years.