Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It’s what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you’re bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

True sorrow is as rare as true love.

People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.

the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ...

What none of them knew, of course, was that Carrie White was telekinetic.

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught.

Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.

I don't know what I am going to play, so how can he know what I am going to play!

Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever.

But Tolkien doesn't ask the question: What was Aragorn's tax policy?

The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

Don't waste your time trying to turn ducks into eagles. Hire people who already have the motivation and drive to be eagles and then just let them soar.

I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.