There's no such thing as a bad day when you have a doorknob on the inside of the door.

John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I and many of my comrades in North Vietnam in the prison camps took torture to avoid saying.

*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.

Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)

A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.

We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.

Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.

I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

Sometimes it's hard for me to tell the difference between independent filmmaking and studio filmmaking because all the studios have these little independent satellites. It's interesting.

Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.