Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.

And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear.Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out.

Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of the past, and memories of the future...

- The myths are dead. The gods are dead. The ghosts and ghouls and phantoms are dead. There is only the State, and the People.- No, Monsieur Robespierre. There is much more than that.

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?

Man is hypocrite! He says that he loves flowers but he kills them for his own simple interests and for his own joy! Man is hypocrite!

Because, as we are told—a sad old joke, too— Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.

I never made music for that crowd. I never made music to fit in. I made music of what I like to hear.

[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope from television.

No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love.

As much as Id love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.

The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.