Sentimentalist” is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse than to be cruel, which it isn’t.

Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.

A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.

I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.

The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?

We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.

"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

The fact that there are bigger injustices and wrongs doesn't make it right to sacrifice an innocent monkey. It doesn't alter the case at all.

I told some imprecisely imagined interlocutor that each year I hoped to have outgrown being moved by the autumn and each year I hadn't

Trump is a counter-product of the traditional political scheme.

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

I write mostly as a director. That's why my screenplays are very detailed. So I get into the images I see. I like that.

If ever the Greeks needed a Trojan horse, it is now.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

Rae Carson's heroine is a perfect blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary. I loved her.

I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists

... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.