That's how it's always been: I was always in the clear so long as I was truly guilty. But the minute my motives were honest someone would finger me.

The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and every day he gnaws. Help me drown the worm, fellas.

Well, I may get drunk, " the Widow admitted, "but I don't stagger. Sometimes I fall down. But I don't stagger.

Actually, they fought to fill the emptiness of their lives as they filled their empty glasses. They fought—not because the liquor was in them, but because it did not fill them enough.

Running up a steep hill or up steps are fantastic ways of building explosive strength.

I looked at him like he was an idiot, but he didn’t notice. Or maybe he got it so often, he thought that was how people looked at him.

The butterfly lures us not only because he is beautiful, but because he is transitory. The caterpillar is uglier, but in him we can regard the better joy of becoming.

Enthusiasm is the DNA of making things happen.

Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.

Prefects. I had learned this one. Student council types, but with superpowers. They who must be obeyed.

When you do things for others; don't expect your good deeds to be returned. Do it because you enjoy making someone's day.

I'm anxious to make another film.