St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night in a second-class hotel.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

One love, one heart, one destiny.

We were characters out of a movie. We were thoroughly alive. And we were absolutely beautiful.

Someone once told me that they didn't like me very much. I smiled and replied, "That's okay. For a long time, I didn't like myself either.

For every man there is a deep longing

How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.

I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course.

I would love to work with Tom Hardy. Maybe do something crazy or dramatic that is different for me.

I find my movie props in my neighbors houses.