Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance

We tried to act familiar, which meant we couldn't ask the kind of questions that might have helped us figure each other out and year after year the distance grew.

Reading Plato should be easy

If I could be who you wanted, all the time

They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.

"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."

To his amazement, he could already hear Henry snoring in the backseat. That guy could fall asleep on a car trip to the mailbox.

I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.

I guess, you make a big studio film, you spend a lot of money on it and you hope people go see it. It's really risky.

Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.