The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The Eyes are the window to your soul

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

If you want to feel good, be rational.

This religion and the Bible require of woman everything, and give her nothing. They ask her support and her love, and repay her with contempt and oppression.

Cynicism is the humour of hatred

I'm coming to London next week, by the way, in unhappy circumstances. Are we getting on fine as we are? Or would you like a drink?

Never underestimate the power of a brillian stylist.

It's so many different elements to a film. Just learning the ins and outs and how the machine works.

The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.

I feel like I'm almost ready to write fiction about the border. But even after 10 years of writing nonfiction about it, I don't think I know quite enough to do it right.