Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

There are no coincidences.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

Who can judge the judge?

I'll love you until the day after forever.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.

The most important thing you need to do [in this job] is to have big chunks of time during the day when all you’re doing is thinking.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.

Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.

I'm somebody who is very, very proud to have been a part of the British film industry all my life and to have kind of been involved with a very important piece of British film history.