Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with

People don’t commit suicide. They get lost in darkness because they can’t find any lights of hope.

The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide.

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

The Daily Beast reports today that if Steve Bannon is denied a security clearance, the President could simply overrule that denial and order that security clearance.

I've done films where we don't rehearse and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

Plotinus thought that the entire world has a single soul. He also thought that each animal and plant and of course human, has an individual soul.

What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.