POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.

JEALOUS, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

It's true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.

One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking!

Drugs made me feel more normal.

When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people.

I'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices.

I think it killed my sister as the times she was living in were so conformist. This is a subject I really want to deal with. I want to start making films about female rage.

I don't want to do a TV series. It's no fun working from dawn to sunset every day. An occasional movie would be fine, and then I'll see what might develop on the political front.

I find myself daydreaming about him when I wake up in the morning, in school when something reminds me of him, and when I fall asleep at night

Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.