Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.

If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.

Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

Nine times out of ten when you extend your arms to someone they will step in because basically they need precisely what you need.

Observe the world around you everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do.

Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.

There's this cave and all humanity is in it and there's this terribly bright light at the other end and everybody's afraid of it.

Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.

Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient.

We have guided missiles and misguided men.

It makes me feel like working non-stop: at least, on sets, the level of security gives me a bit of privacy. It's a relief.