Sullivan had her Crucifix Soldier and now I have mine. No. I am the soldier. Teacup is the cross.

People die. Love endures.

You never know when the truth will come home. You can’t choose the time. The time chooses you.

How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they really needed was Mother Nature and time.

The answer is they didn't. They aren't here, Razor. They never were it's just us. It's always been just us.

I've always sucked at games of chance. Always hated them for that reason.

He didn’t like to see animals in captivity. When he looked into their eyes, something in their eyes looked back at him.

The nights did not come gently but seemed to slam down angrily upon the Earth.

Life is full of little ironies, but it's also pockmarked with some the size of that big rock in Australia.

In the early days, it was nearly omnipresent, a constant background noise, like the hum of traffic on a busy highway: the sound of a human being in pain.

Why you keep telling me to be careful, Old man ?Your stupidity doesn't deserve my sacrifice, Kiddo.

As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.

All communication begins with an intention, and your intention determines the quality of your life.

The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

Don't be afraid to reach for the stars

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.

I think that's how you have to make films. You can't try to imitate or repeat. You have to make your own thing, tell the story that is in your own heart.

In any democratic country you have more than one view.

If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon