Politics always change. Stories never do.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Words his soul danced to.

I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.

The First Man is completely autobiographical. The mother [Albert Camus] describes is the woman I knew, and she was exactly as he describes her. And this teacher really existed.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.

He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

To dare: that is the whole secret of revolutions.

Europe is nervous. Already rattled this year by the shock of the Brexit vote, the European Union needs stability in Italy, a country notorious for its instability.

You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn't bear malice toward others.