That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

Refuse to react to any angry actions.

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.

You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.

Because as much as the world loves you one minute, it can be way down on you the next.

But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment

L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation.

I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.