There are lots of things we choose not to see. Doesn't mean they aren't there, even if we wish they weren't.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

There are no coincidences.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

Who can judge the judge?

I'll love you until the day after forever.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world.

Women are the flower in the garden of humanity.

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

Any job that posts a price list for your body parts is a bad job.

One of the best ways to expand his horizon is through a regular reading program.

An integral approach acknowledges that all views have a degree of truth, but some views are more true than others, more developed, more evolved, more adequate.

I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

[sam] Kinison, when he started out, he'd come to Canada when I was first starting, and he'd always [bomb].

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this.