It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to see.

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

You're a Good Little Slave

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

Few things worth having can be got easily.

Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.

When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.

Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close, to let go of the flaws that shaped me.

Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

O rose, you look sick.O rose, wake up and sing.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Respect yourself, your Opponent and the Game

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer.

I'm not trying to put our women on a pedestal that they don't deserve to be on. No man is a "man" without a woman: It's a woman that helps the man to be a man.

A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

The only thing I care about is my family.