The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Success is a great healer.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

the only revenge worth having is success.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

I have licked the fire and danced in the ashes of every bridge I ever burned. I fear no hell from you.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve you get even less than you settled for.

The love we give away is the only one we keep.

And I think that if something doesn't make sense, forcing yourself to understand it from [Chris Nolan's] perspective makes you better.

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.

Yes, I was really good in physics and in math.

More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation

Thrilled that Gov. Romney enjoys my old character. I enjoyed the character he used 2 b 2. If he'd embrace that again, he'd b a great candidate.

I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.