I'd spent so long trying to fit in, trying to be someone i wasn't, that i had no idea who i was any more.

The thing I am most afraid of is love. When you say you love someone you are giving them license to hurt you.

You can't stay here any more. My fears have been irrational and they've forced me to make unwise decisions and accept the unacceptable.

True friendship never questions what it costs you.

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

People who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It will be up to the American people to take it back.

If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.

I like movies that resonate, that give voice to the voiceless.

Had I not become a footballer, I think I would have been... a virgin.

It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.