There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.

There's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.

wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state

The Internet is an actor's best friend.

But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.

It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.

Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there.

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

The world is whole beyond human knowing.