He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.

Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.

Of course it's heavier, he thought. It's got my grief in it. I pull it along with me everywhere I go, so I do.

The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...

[HAMILTON]I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory

I was head over heels, now I just see my heel in your head

In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.

The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story, based on who's embodying it.

The words we use don't matter as much as the emotion behind the words. When we understand this, we have the ability to influence, inspire, persuade and affect others.

When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.

Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.

I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.

Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life.

I don't like all this talking in the press.