Nothing in life was as ugly as death.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.

You are all alike, you people. You never learn the truth--that God knows nothing.

He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets?

No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible.

You talk as if Bea were a trophy.''No, as if she were a blessing, ' Fermin corrected.

Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can.

If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

I think people are starting to think of me less as an actor and more as a writer.

Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.

The most likely moment for something incredible to happen to me was the moment I was most certain nothing ever would.

What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.

Stability can be a good thing, but it can also lead to apathy. I don't want to set that example for my children. I want them to believe in their dreams and to go after them. You do that by example.

Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.