In the world to come they will not ask me "Why were you not Moses?" They will ask me "Why were you not Zusya?"

The only thing to know is how to use your neuroses.

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

The biggest problem with the independent film sector in Toronto is that they find themselves having to make that budget show on screen.

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

Katie Dippold, who I wrote the script with, she's very into ghosts and all that. So I go, "Hey, why don't you talk to Katie?"