If character is destiny, the good are damned.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell.

I don't really need a lot of help from a director.

Now me and my brother go to see him some times but he don't have much to say anymore. So we sit on his headstone with a fifth of Jack D. Here's to a long line of sinners like me.

Lose the world, get lost in it, and find your soul.

I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.

Since Catherine [Zeta-Jones] and I got together, I've cut back dramatically. My priorities changed, and I still love acting and all that, but not as much as I love watching my two kids grow up.

I was actually raised around a lot of children. So, I'm very comfortable around children.

If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off

The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.