If we're all going to die, shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now?

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.

I want to make a film about a factory worker.

Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.

The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

Future never desires to become a past.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.

Life is not at all what you might think it to be A simple tale where each thing has its history It's much more than its scuffle and anything goes Both evil and good, subject to the same laws.

Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.

That's my sweetheart in there. I'm not living her. This is my home now. Your mother is my home.

Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.

I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.

Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?