..More choices in a limited time didn't mean didn't mean you could do everything-it meant that you could do anything, so you probably did nothing, frozen with indecision.

Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.

This world has only two kinds of people: villains and smiling villains.

...Many shadows hide behind light, and the best lies are those seasoned liberally with truth: salt covering the flavor of rotten meat.

Every act intends some good.

Did you pick that out?" I asked Dimitri. Honestly, I would have expected him to bend a piece of steel with his bare hands and present her with that.

I’m not a follower. I never have been. But I’ll definitely become someone I’m not for a few hours if it’ll make me blend in rather than make me a blatant eye sore and draw attention.

'Take Shelter' is a tough movie because there's no humor in it, so there's really no way to judge how you're doing - whether people are still with you or not.

My! ain't men blinder'n moles?

Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.

We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.

Create tools that enable people to make decisions at the same level, ideally, of fidelity that that you would make them yourself.

The breath of liberty is sweet.

New York is a special place; it's a city that I love.

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.