I like when people question if the characters are really villains or protagonists. These types are very interesting to write about.

My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.

Human beings are not like they are portrayed in Hollywood. They are individuals who are a mixture of good and bad.

I really don't know why the Muslims do what they are doing. Those terrorists don't seem to have a moral code.

I realized fear one morning, with the blare of the fox hunter's sound. When they're all chasin' the poor bloody fox, 'tis safer to be dressed like the hound.

Words become meaningless, the mind cuts itself off from reality for a little while, a necessary breathing space until one is ready to cope.

A world at war is crazy enough for anything to be believable.

The world was a bad joke dreamed up by the Almighty on an off-day. I've always felt myself that he probably had a hangover that morning.

My friend, you are truly yourself alone. God must have broken the mould after turning you out.

May you find what you are searching for, my friend.– I already have and lost it in the finding.

And if it doesn't go like that?– Then all your problems will be over and you won't have a thing to worry.

Greed is the prison of poverty.

Thinking about work as a day job has made a big difference in the way I approach what I do. It also helped me not to confuse who I am with what I do.

Never let those who are very accustomed to playing small, talk you out of the habit of dreaming big.

The truth was, she found it hard to look at the man. It was like gazing at the sun.

When Robert Benton was doing the movie 'In the Still of the Night,' I'd choreographed the auction scene and supplied the paintings and had a bit part - I was bidding against Meryl Streep.

'La Dolce Vita' made we want to go to Rome and, if not jump into the Trevi Fountain, at least watch someone else do it. Maybe that's why I married an Italian...!

On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment.

The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.

Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits.

I do not believe that a counterterrorism strategy all by itself, without a sufficient level of counterinsurgency, will work.