Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, the walls surrounding a medieval castle: obsolete walls evoke nostalgia. Make your walls obsolete.

There is nothing new under the sun.

Those who write clearly have readers.

Stupidity is not another form of knowledge.

Don't pay attention to what anyone is telling you about your personal journey just keep going, because that's what it's all about.

Rock, meet stubborn place.

Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences

Americans want to have what members of Congress have: guaranteed health coverage.

Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.

When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."