If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show.

There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them anymore.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

Words have a life; without response they die.

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?.

The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

Those who tried to fill the void with passion, were engulfed by it’s flames.

Every love gives you wings.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Do I need to apologize for Mr.[Tom] Coburn's statements? Because I certainly don't agree with those, either.

Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky.

The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal

Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.

Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.