The one thing about being a creator, about being an artist, is that you get to explore your ideas. We're fortunate that we're in the position to do that, and I don't take it for granted.

All of us change. Everyone in this world, from birth to death, becomes someone new. Again and again, we are remade.

Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.

I am vulnerable, starved for kindness. And when I receive it, I lose my mind.

Moscow was, as some said, the most beautiful mistress a man could ever want, but never cross her: like any good woman, she might just cut off your balls for the hell of it.

Miracles pass and I see. Great wonders speak and I listen.

I've got a black-belt in crazy, and I know where you live.

Being alone was easier. No risk, just loneliness. No one ever died from that.

Nice characters are boring! I like writing upbeat characters - that's my natural tendency.

Nice characters are boring!

Religion was no cure for dysfunction.

War made the state, and the state made war

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.

Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.

We pray against the domestic enemies of the Constitution, against this demon of tyranny who is using the White House occupant. That demonic spirit is oppressing us.

I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.

The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it.

Requite injury with kindness.

Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

Everyone acts stupid at some time in order to be loved.