Heaven no longer exists, nor does the earth.

Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.

The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame.

Humans don't see what they don't want to see. No one wants to be put down. That's why people do nothing even when they do know something is happening.

No matter how many stones you throw at the water's surface, no matter how much you step on a shadow, the water's surface does not disappear, the shadow does not disappear.

He who is neither human nor demon is not the dawn nor the dusk.

Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.

I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.

There is only one quality that makes humans truly human and that is their will.

Giving up is what kills people.

The ones who destroy monsters have always been humans.

You have always understood and accepted my most genuine, most intimate impulses and responded to them with surprising accuracy. I wish all people turned into such mirrors for each other.

We all choke and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell.

The real issue is not whether baking biscuits is meaningful, but the extent to which the activity can seem to be so after it has been continuously stretched and subdivided across five thousand lives.

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

There was an embarrassing moment in the White House earlier today. They were looking around while searching for George Bush's military records. They actually found some old Al Gore ballots.

Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy. This is success!

I don't generally do movies that get good reviews.

Don't follow those who talk, follow those who do.