Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings, survive wars without damage and speak of warrior honor afterward.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.

If my mind and my city were the same thing then I was losing my mind.

While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for me—perhaps love is a process of finding a common vision of reality.

One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation.

Isabel’s indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.

If Duncan was ever into men then he's been so far in the closet he's been living in Narnia.

We can say "Peace on Earth." We can sing about it preach about it or pray about it but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us then it will not be.

The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated.

Treat other animals as friends and they become friends. Treat other animals as family and they become family. Give other animals your love and they will love you in return.

When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.

I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.

An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease.

Trump's claims that he's making taxes more democratic for the people, but it actually is a vast sucking of income and wealth upward.

Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.