Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?

What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.

Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can’t stiffen up enough to create them.

The world is going to become bloody stupid and from now on will be a very boring place. We’re lucky to be living now.

I have patience in all things – as far as the antechamber.

The past is a reality that exists just beyond our reach.

I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.

Life is too meaningful to die.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of sXXXch, or the right of the people peaceably to XXXemble, and to peXXXion the government for a redress of grievances.

There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat.

I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia.

With my dad passing away, he's always watching me-a big smile on his face, watching every snap on the 50-yard line.

The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.

Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.