Of course real horror does not depend upon the melodrama of shadows or even the conspiracies of night.

Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen.

Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.

And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.

Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.

Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts.

Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.

...and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along.

I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

The sacred words penetrate the heart.

In situations like this - when you meet somebody who isn't an ordinary human - people like me have two choices. One: to exhibit plain and obvious hostility towards that person

Peter Aykroyd has a wonderful eye for the telling detail, cameos that stick in the mind. Thse are the little touches that make it past come alive.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

I know how Lupe Velez felt. You fight just so long and then you begin to worry about being washed up. You fear there's one way to go and that's down.

I just want to be fair. I want to be a firm and fair trader.

I'm proud of 'Miracle at St. Anna' and I loved it; there's no question in my mind it's as good as any movie that came out in 2007.

Information is bad for knowledge.

People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.

90 percent of Indian cinema is crap