It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too.

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

Innocence is a kind of insanity

Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.

Death was far more certain than God.

Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility.

So much of war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn't seem worth even starting a train of thought.

They killed him because he was too innocent to live.

Neither of us mentioned him when we woke on the morning after his death...One is not jealous of the dead, and it seemed easy to me that morning to take up our old life together.

Innocence always calls mutely or protection when we would be so much wise to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

The MAIN thing is to MAINTAIN!

I may not know why, but I do know why not and this is where I stand.

The boy's got problems, the boy's got stress, the boy's got a .38 hidden in his desk.

As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote

[Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

You never know just what you can do until you try.

There is great pain in all love, but we don't care, it's worth it.

Number four, we're going to play like winners, play the game the way it's meant to be played. Don't get full of yourself if something good happens. Don't get too depressed when something bad happens.

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