Life went on. Death went on. The war went on.

The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it still remains.

There seems to be no hope. But pretending to be hopeful is the only grace we have . . .

Normalcy was declared. (Normalcy was always a declaration.)

History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.

Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.

Who can know from the word goodbye what kind of parting is in store for us.

Even in the most uneventful of our lives, we are called upon to choose our battles...

Sitting next to Tilo, breathing next to her, he felt like an empty house whose locked windows and doors were creaking open a little, to air the ghosts trapped inside it.

Cow, goat, chicken, lamb . . . only slaves eat like this, ’ Musa said, heaping an impolite amount on to his plate. ‘Our stomachs are graveyards.

Socrates asked the key question: why should we be moral?

Find the connection between you and the universe

To an optimist loneliness is freedom, to all others it is prison.

I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.

We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core.Without them, we are empty.

I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory; and when I arrived I was tired.

On an animated movie, I'm learning as I go. There are so many details in animation. Doing the voices was the easy-part. Doing live-action, you have to be on the set, every day.

Never trust a preacher with more than two suits.

The president of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the commander of the armed forces, full stop.

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable

The first thing I ask when Im offered a part is, Whos the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.