For them, it was just an ordinary miracle.

People perish. Books are immortal.

And the great thing about money is that it doesn’t matter when you harvest it. It’s an all-year crop.

The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether one chose to walk erect or to be dragged complaining through the dust.

Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere... - Pg. 82

Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195

You will see by this that no man should be judged by another here in this life, for the good or evil he has done. Deeds may be properly judged, whether they are good or bad, but not men.

Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn't have to.

He was beginning to understand: You were treated special and, later, something horrible would be told to you.

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

With wealth, I can do pretty much what I want. But you've got to provide a good example because you have a lot of people that look up to you now.

We must remind ourselves that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible.

Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7

Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.

The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.

I'm used to being under pressure... luckily I perform well under pressure.