Is there anything more frightening than people?

Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth.

Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl--there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic.

Back then everyone was saying: "We're going to die, we're going to die. By the year 2000, there won't be any Belarussians left.

We were told that we had to win. Against whom? The atom? Physics? The universe? Victory is not an event for us, but a process.

...you listen first with the ears - then, you wait and listen for what your heart feels - then you consider what they've said - then, you reply ...

Those who serve a cause are not those who love that cause. They are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it - except in the case of the very purest and they are rare.

Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.

They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

They never said winning was easy.

I tried Botox once. Never again. It made my forehead freeze.

If you spend a lot of time on sportsmanship, you're going to spend a lot of time losing.

Why couldn't I have a fatal disease? It'd be so much easier.

Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.

Trust me, he whispers against my lips. Maggie, you're my paradise.