Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.

We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.

Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.

There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.

I let people off the hook too easily.

Peace is something you only have when your enemy is gone. Either after you have turned him into a friend or vanquished him

Love, is there even a true description other than knowing your heart will cease to beat without that certain someone in your life?-Rusty Blackwood

It's just easier to make fun and cut down. It's kind of a way of life in America. If you can make people want to hear what you're going to say, it can be cruel and funny.

Service without reward is punishment.

Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end.

Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry

A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.

Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.

People are always asking, 'Is everything ok?' Look, I was not depressed, ok? I was just freaking exhausted.

For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.