Love is best a phantom than reality, better in the chase than caught.

But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.

The bars on our cage are of our own making.

But how right is it to kill a man for something that is in his soul?

Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away.

Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.

What are we all chasing? Nella wonders. To live, of course. To be unbound from the invisible ropes that Johannes spoke of in his study. Or to be happy in them, at least.

A piece of art only succeeds when it's creator...possesses the belief that brings it into being

You are a stone, thrown upon a lake. But the ripples you create will never make you still.

This city is like no other city in the world. It is brilliant but it is bloated, and I've never called it home

The turnip cannot thrive in the tulips patch of soil.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

Tut, tut — fame clearly isn't everything.

Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

Reality has always proved to be much more sophisticated and subtle than any preconceived philosophy.

My biggest problem in my life is I'm cheap and I didn't hire a publicist. In every awkward interview, normally actors get these things scripted.

People will do as they are told by someone who outranks them, but they will only follow someone they believe in.

Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires.