It’s a full-time job being homeless. It’s a full-time job being poor.

Know a man by his metaphors.

The trick was not to stifle the emotions, but to control them. Love, anger, grief – all were weapons in their way, but they needed to be kept in check.

You pay by the hour, even if the job only takes five minutes. I don’t do fractions.

Slow animals always become prey in the end.

If cats could count, they’d start getting nervous around the time they put paid to their fifth life.

A condensed Shakespeare with all of the dull parts removed, leaving only the great moments of drama: ghosts, and bloodied daggers, and dying kings.

But he was wounded, and tired, and winter was still upon him.

Misery loved company, but damnation needed it.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

I had but one love and it is gone and now there is nothing and I tell you, that is the most awful feeling in the world.

Sometimes waiting and being disappointed was good, to remind me he didn't belong to me. Nothing belonged to me.

That's the worst thing for an actor: when you say to someone, "Yeah, I was in that movie," and they say, "You were?"

As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.

There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

I like to just feel how I feel and not worry about it really.

A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.

We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.