I want to do things that shock people. I think that persona attributes more to the roles that other people may consider me for, rather than the ones I consider for myself.

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

People love to hate. I have a love-hate relationship with the world. The world loves to hate me.

Near counts more than far, familiar more than different. Such is the indictment against the press, that it fails to treat similar tragedies with equal dignity.

To a Brit of my generation, one of the most objectionable things about [Margaret] Thatcher is her falsity. She is a total construct. For one thing, she had a made-over accent.

The depths of the self are the heights of God.

We are Boston. We are America. We respond. We endure. We overcome. And we own the finish line.

I appreciate having been promoted for merit, on merit. And then bringing to bear whatever those extra special characteristics that all of us have.

But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything.

Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?

We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake.